'Diabetics deserve monthly food rations'

Sufferer Timothy Seabelo, who gave a testimony about the disease during the World Diabetes Day commemoration, said to ensure healthy living people who suffer from sugar diabetes are recommended special foods that may not always be affordable.

He also urged government to consider implementing a special dispensation for those who suffer from the disease at the health facilities. They should be assisted before others because they go for check-ups on empty stomachs. "We should not be allowed to queue even at the dispensary because of the nature of our disease and authorities must ensure we are assisted and done with by 10am," he said.