KUCHING: The state Health Department will go all out to encourage people, especially those with a family history of diabetes, to go for medical checks following a survey which showed that many of them are unaware they have the disease.
Sarawak health director Dr Yao Sik Chi cited a morbidity survey carried out nationwide by the Health Ministry in 1996 which showed that 8.6% of adults aged over 30 were diabetics but 3.5% of them did not know it.
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