Surgeons and specialised consultants in treating obesity have sounded the alarm over the increasing rate of obese people in the kingdom.
They said the rate of obesity exceeded expectations for 2030, reaching 36 per cent of the population over the past years.
Shura Council member Dr Hani Al Saati revealed in a seminar on weight loss surgeries that 2.5pc of the children in Bahrain have Type 2 diabetes.
He pointed out that Bahrain is one of the countries with the highest number of Type 2 diabetics.
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