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Superstition: Vanuatu eye doctors must overcome traditional ways to help diabetics.
Superstition: Vanuatu eye doctors must overcome traditional ways to help diabetics.
"They don't have enough knowledge about diabetes and they come up with all sorts of thoughts - oh, I was punished by something, or I was poisoned." Video / Chris Tarpey
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Nearly a quarter of Vanuatu's population of 280,000 have diabetes. There is a huge number of people who may not know they have the disease and will go blind without treatment. Video / Chris Tarpey
Karlpat Edul doesn't look the type to have had his life put on hold by a disease like diabetes. Video / Chris Tarpey
A dramatic increase in diabetes in the Pacific is causing amputations and blindness.
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Clerence has dense cataracts and diabetic retinopathy, whereby the disease causes bleeding at the back of eye. Video / Chris Tarpey
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