# With today being World Diabetes Day, the City of Cape Town says it is encouraged by the ongoing increase in the number of persons screening for diabetes. Diabetes is the second leading cause of death in South Africa, behind Tuberculosis. Mayoral committee member for Community Services and Health, Francine Higham, says in the past financial year, the number of diabetes screenings at clinics in the 18 to 44 age group rose by just more than four-percent to 132-thousand-518:
Cape Town Health highlights growing diabetes risk [SOUND]
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