DF Chair to Okaz: Lack of clinics doubles gangrene cases
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General Supervisor of the chair Mohammed Hussein Al Amoudi Research diabetic foot and Professor of Surgery and Consultant Vascular Surgery at King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, Professor Hassan Ali Al-Zahrani, has revealed to Okaz newspaper that the amputations as a result of diabetes in Jeddah up to 345 annually, while in Riyadh, up to 814 as a result of the high number of residents in Riyadh area, while in the Kingdom, the number of cases of amputation of up to four thousand a year, expected to increase in the coming years with the growing population and the increasing incidence of diabetes, especially type II.
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