Sainiani Boila 
Orthopedic Surgeon Dr.Eddie McCaig
15.8 percent of Fiji’s population has diabetes.
This was revealed by Orthopedic Surgeon Dr.Eddie McCaig while speaking on the Do’s and Dont’s to help improve the health care system during the National Economic Summit. He says that 60 percent of patients currently admitted to hospitals have the disease.
Dr.McCaig says this is alarming, as 40 percent of those who go and have an operation have diabetes.
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He says the doctors are cutting limbs off, and this does not include, if you can say, well, we cut limbs off, but we are not taking into account the kidneys that are failing.
Dr. McCaig says NCDs are a main problem in Fiji, and despite the efforts of the Ministry, it’s still not enough to address the issue.
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