Diabetes Association raises awareness with walk

November is commemorated as Diabetes Awareness Month and the Belize Diabetes Association is raising awareness with a number of events leading up to World Diabetes Day. The activities kick off tomorrow morning with a walk and tonight B.D.A. President Anthony Castillo is encouraging the public to participate.

Anthony Castillo, President, B.D.A.
“I would like to invite the general public to join us in celebrating World Diabetes Day. World Diabetes Day is celebrated on the fourteenth of November each year. This year the theme for the world diabetes day is “Diabetes in Children and Adolescents”. The program of activities begins on Saturday the eighth of November. At six-thirty in the morning we’ll have diabetes walk which takes us in front of the City Centre over Belcan Bridge and Freetown Road right into Douglas Jones Street and North Front Street and ends at Memorial Park. So we invite the general public to come and join us and give their support as we fight the silent killer diabetes.”

The activities continue the following week with school visits, educational sessions, blood sugar testing and presentations by doctors within selected schools. On World Diabetes Day, a public health fair will be held at the K.H.M.H. parking lot.