Not only is diabetes an issue here but the whole of the middle east 25% of the GCC is diabetic, and the vast majority of that is from lifestyle, eating too much rice, fast food, chocolate, and not enough exercise. Mind you that may be due in some part to the weather (it gets up to 50 C here in the summer).

Very little facilities provided for adopting a healthy lifestyle over here.

Yes you are correct the vast majority of this is what is referred to as type 2, but there is increasingly more and more kids with Maturity onset diabetes in Youth (MODY), and that's even before considering the type 1's, or the Latent autoimmune diabetes in adults (LADA).

you will be surprised to know Qatar is ranked 13th in the World as far as health systems is concerned by the WHO. It has nothing to do with inefficient health systems, Would you say the UK, or US has inefficient systems?? yet they have just as much an issue as they do over here, 8% of the US or UK population versus 25% of the local population...... still far more diabetics in the West than there is here.

The problem we have here is that the diabetes for many many years has been mismanaged, and we have many people dealing with the serious complications associated with it. In fact the whole purpose of this hospital is to be a prevention centre once we can stem the flow of complications, but also to develop a lifestyle approach, and behavioural modification to reduce blood sugars and hopefully reverse complications.

You assumed correct I am from the Uk, also given the fact I mention I was Scottish might have been a give away!!