Many residents of Jumilla had an appointment with health biannual visit the Diabetic Association performs Altiplano for over ten years for the prevention of diabetes.
For evidence tables located at the main entrance to the old market have gone over the numbers tomorrow / as Jumillano / as willing to find out your blood sugar level, through a simple test, which in less than a minute is possible to predict whether it can run or not any health risk.
The Councillor for Health, Almudena Martinez and Councillor for Citizen Participation, Antonio Valero, attended the campaign, to show support to the activity that the association made in Jumilla, and which is usually diagnosed between 3 and 4 new cases in each campaign.
As he stressed John Thomas, a member of the Association, all morning there have been about 1,200 tests in which almost thirty people have high blood sugar levels.
The Association recalled that diabetes is a silent disease, it takes to face, and the consequences can be fatal, which is why it is recommended that these tests with a given frequency to prevent abnormalities.
The Diabetic Association is one of 20 organizations that participate next Sunday, November 17 at the Health Fair and Sport "Jumilla Healthy", which will take place on the Paseo Poeta Lorenzo Guardiola, whose aim is to give about the activities of professional associations and social health of the municipality that make up the tissues associative Jumilla.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Jumilla