MSD raises awareness of how to maintain healthy blood sugar levels during Ramadan
During a media gathering at Le Royal Hotel-Dbayeh, MSD in Lebanon, a leading pharmaceutical company, launched its diabetes awareness campaign, aimed at tackling the health challenges that Muslims with Type 2 Diabetes who wish to fast, may face during Ramadan. Despite the serious health risks that fasting could pose to diabetics, research shows that more than 50 million people with diabetes continue to fast during Ramadan against the advice of healthcare professionals. As part of their initiative to understand the best ways to support diabetics who choose to fast, MSD undertook a study assessing 1,066 patients in 43 clinical centres across the Middle East.
Recognizing the critical role that healthcare professionals play in providing advice to diabetics who fast, in 2011 MSD launched a campaign to promote greater awareness about diabetics who choose to fast including the development of a new information kit for healthcare.
