Behind the rising tide of diabetes amputations

May 9, 2019 · 16m 25s
Behind the rising tide of diabetes amputations
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Each week The Front Page takes you behind the scenes of the biggest story from the New Zealand Herald and Newstalk ZB. Today it's the shocking rise of amputations caused...

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Each week The Front Page takes you behind the scenes of the biggest story from the New Zealand Herald and Newstalk ZB. Today it's the shocking rise of amputations caused by diabetes. Hosted by Frances Cook.

In New Zealand, a first-world country, people are losing limbs when they don't need to.

They are suffering from diabetes, and a medical system overwhelmed with patients isn't able to keep up.

Crucial preventive care is missed, leading to infection, amputation, and sometimes death.

Investigative journalist Nick Jones has found that, in the past four years, New Zealand has had more lower-limb amputee cases from diabetes than were performed on returned soldiers from World War I.

The cases have increased 40 per cent over the past 10 years, and are now approaching 1000 per year.

On this week's Front Page podcast, host Frances Cook talks to Nick about how he uncovered this story, the balance between sensitivity and the raw truth, and what needs to happen next.

To read more from Nick's series, you can see the story of our hidden amputation shame here https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12222478, or read the personal trauma of Pam Abraham's amputation here https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12222501

If you like to stay up to date on social media, you can find host Frances Cook on Facebook here https://www.facebook.com/FrancesCookJournalist/ Instagram here https://www.instagram.com/francescooknz/ and Twitter here https://twitter.com/FrancesCook
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