"I see more and more patients with diabetes," said Dr. Tran Quang Khanh, the Chief of which is Department of Endocrinology, which Ward 20 new patients per day will receive.
The exact reasons for an increase of diabetes cases are hard to pin down - people live doctors in Viet Nam longer, for one - but say the main perpetrators are "Westernization and urbanization.""Now we have KFC and many fast-food restaurants," said Dr. Khanh.
In a country where the limbs were once destroyed by explosive devices and landmines, an alarming case load "Diabetes walk," treat the hospitals in Viet Nam an infection that scrape often referred to as a small start but then developed a gangrenous wound because the disease patients insensitive and affect the healing process.In the most severe cases, leg be amputated. If the leg can be spared, doctors do a Debridement, a gruesome operation that seems to be more suitable for the trenches of Verdun for a dynamic, modern metropolis of Ho Chi Minh City. The procedure includes rotting meat cut and takes place several times a day to Nguyen Tri Phuong and four other hospitals in Ho Chi Minh City, the districts of diabetes care have dedicated.
Doctors and Government officials say there are no statistics on the number of amputations related to diabetes in Viet Nam, but Dr. Thy Khue, a pioneering diabetes researcher in the country, says that the problem is "heavy" and a special burden on the health care system, because patients with legs amputated or legs tend to remain for weeks in the hospital. Diabetes foot exists in the West, but rates in Viet Nam and other tropical countries may be higher because people tend to wear Sandals outside and her feet go barefoot around the House leave more prone to injury, Dr. Khue said.Diabetes rates are rising in many countries, but it is a particularly poignant paradox, that after so many years of war in Viet Nam, peace now partially through the afflictions of the increasing prosperity is clouded: blocked, heart, obesity, and diabetes.
Official statistics the total show in Viet Nam a dizzying rise in type 2 diabetes, the form of the disease, the diet and lifestyle and epidemic levels hang together in the West, has reached especially for the overweight.By only 1 percent of the Vietnamese population in 1991 - the year the first nationwide survey of diabetes occurred in Viet Nam - the rate increased by 6 per cent last year. And in Ho Chi Minh City, a survey in 2010 estimated that 1 out of 10 adults had the disease.
Dr. Khue said diabetes even the very rich subject was. But as people in factories and offices by rice paddies have moved their patients today are from all walks of life."It not the disease of the super rich," she said. "Now poor and rich - all - can get diabetes."
Jesper Hoiland, senior Vice President of Novo Nordisk, the world's largest manufacturer of medications that are expected to treat disease that was the number of people with diabetes in Viet Nam continued to grow climbing higher as the economy of the country, said - and as more people take on modern, urban lifestyle."We are a real pandemic in Viet Nam over the next years see," he said.
The International Diabetes Federation, a group that keeps statistics on the disease, calculates that 371 million people with diabetes worldwide were afflicted last year. Four of five people with the disease living in poor or middle-income countries such as Egypt, Guyana and Viet Nam, said the Federation."In the world of today many more people die from overeating than from starvation," said Mr Hoiland.
To the hardest-hit Pacific include Islanders, where diabetes rates as almost a third of the population can go, is as high as is the case in the tiny island of Nauru in Micronesia. Arab countries have very high prices, according to data released by the Federation. Almost a quarter of the adult population in Saudi Arabia has diabetes, according to the data.
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