Respite has come the way of diabetic patients following introduction of Bayer Contour Ts Blood Glucose Monitoring Device, an easy-to-use meter which enables easy monitoring of blood glucose without assistance from a health care provider.
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It can also be used in hospitals by doctors to get instant result for their patients with 100 percent accuracy.
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At the launch of the product last week in Lagos, Professor Olutayo Alebiosu, Provost, College of Health Sciences, Osun State University, Osogbo said Nigeria has about three million people suffering from diabetes and with the highest mortality rates due to the disease.
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He explained that management of diabetes is very expensive and not affordable by majority of sufferers, noting that while people living with HIV/ AIDS and Tuberculosis receive medications and do laboratory test free, there are no subsidies for diabetes care.