A Nephrologist, Doctor Chioma Unachukwu, has called on governments at all levels to come up with a health policy to assist diabetes and kidney patients.

Doctor Unachukwu, a physician trained in kidney diseases, transplant and dialysis therapy, made the call in a paper she delivered at a symposium to mark this year’s World Kidney Day.

 She said diabetes and kidney disease were assuming dangerous dimension in the morbidity and mortality chart in Nigeria.

The medical expert said more than two hundred and eighty-five million people were currently living with the burden of diabetes across the world, with fear of the figure increasing to four hundred and forty million in the next twenty years.

The Doctor attributed the disease to sedentary lifestyle, environmental challenges, unhealthy diet, as well as over consumption of fast foods, and recommended regular medical checkup, physical exercises and good nutrition as steps toward averting the health danger.