Members of the Diabetes Association of Nigeria (DAN) have re-elected Dr. Alkali Mohammed as their President.
Members of the Association who converged on Abeokuta, Ogun state on Wednesday where they elected new executive officers that will lead the association for the next three years where unanimous in re-electing Alkali.
During the meeting, the association also resolved that the former executive officers including the vice President 1, secretary general, assistant secretary, assistant secretary 2, treasurer, welfare Officer and Ex-officio should be retained for performing well.
However, there was election into the offices of the nationalpublicity secretary, vice President North West and vice President South West.
The new national officers are: Dr Alkali Mohammed,president, Ejiofor Ugwu, Vice president 1, Aisha Indo Lawan, Vice presidentNorth West, Dr I.F Korubo, Vice president South South, Alhaji Bolarinwan Dauda,Vice president South West, Bernard Enyia, Secretary general, BNK Adejonwo,Assistant secretary 1, and Salisu Muazu, Assistant secretary 2.
Others are; Modupe Salam, Treasurer, Najib Sani, PublicitySecretary and Josephine Aregbesola, Welfare Officer. While the ex-officio areProf Sunday Chinenye and Hajiya Uwa Shehu Abubakar.
According to a press statement by the national Publicity Secretary of the Association Najib Sani, the Congress have also during the meeting discussed on the problems facing diabetes patients in Nigeria and observed that the disease has attained great significance in sub-saharan Africa with Nigeria being the most affected.
“The Congress therefore proffered some recommendationson how to tackle the disease as follows: Massive education on the menace of thedisease and how to properly manage it.
” That government should subsidize diabetes drugs andtreatments to enable the poor who live with the disease manage it well andProvision of foot care facilities as some of the measures to mitigateamputation of limbs among diabetics.
” The Congress also advised diabetics on self care through healthy eating, good meal timing habits, regular exercise, maintaining a healthy weight, proper use of medication and self monitoring of glucose as some of the ways of managing the disease”, he said.
