TIRANA, August 19/ATA/- About 12% of people who performed the basic checkup during January-July 2019 had developed diabetes.
The Compulsory Healthcare Insurance Fund provided the data adding that 19% of people were identified as being in the pre-diabetes phase.
According to the data, 51% of the males and 49% of women had developed diabetes.
While according to the residential area, 62.8% of the people lived in urban areas and 37.2% in rural areas.
“The checkup enables timely diagnosis, avoids complications and if a person follows a healthy lifestyle you can prevent diabetes without the need for treatment,” said specialists of the Compulsory Healthcare Insurance Fund.
After 4 years, 250,000 citizens have benefited from the free Check-Up, while 34,235 free surgeries have been performed in 29 hospitals across the country./z.tosku/j.p/p.s./
