‘Our diet is killing us quietly’: Fiji’s diabetes crisis
Nearly one-third of Fijians have diabetes, and the disease is often not caught until amputation, or even death, are imminent
At the height of his 15-year career as a surgeon in the Pacific nation of Fiji, Dr Jone Hawea was performing eight to 10 diabetes-related operations every day – at least two of which were the amputations of limbs.
“Our wards are always full of diabetes cases. Sometimes our surgical wards wouldn’t be able to deal with the non-emergency cases because there’s all this diabetes surgery to do,” says Hawea.
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