DFS Testing Action Day a Success

SINT MAARTEN (PHILIPSBURG) - The Diabetes Foundation of St. Maarten (DFS) hereby would like to thank the general public for coming out and supporting this Testing Action Day on Saturday April 1, 2023.

DFS said they organized a program for the general public for the testing and information about Diabetes (glucose), cholesterol, blood pressure and BMI at Cost U Less Center from 10.00 am to 12.00 noon. This Testing Action Day was a great success.

DFS would like to encourage the general public to continue testing on a regular basis, because you might have Diabetes and don’t know.

Diabetes and other chronic diseases are at epidemic proportions in the Caribbean and continue to be a threat to the economic development of the region. According to WHO’s (World Health Organization) Global report on Diabetes, the number of people living with diabetes has almost quadrupled since 1980, with most living in developing countries.

Factors driving this dramatic rise include overweight and obesity. WHO highlights the need to step up prevention and treatment of the disease. If we are to make any headway in halting the rise in diabetes, we need to rethink our daily lives: to eat healthily, be physically active and avoid excessive weight gain.

April is a month with many activities where we want to keep warning the general

public to keep monitoring your food intake and try to keep checking yourself, the DFS said on Monday in a statement.

DFS aim is to continue giving the necessary support and care to prevent Diabetes and increasing awareness on its consequences to the general public of St. Maarten.

DFS will be informing the general public when their next testing program will be, which will be after the Easter holidays.

DFS is looking for volunteers to help them with their aim to prevent diabetes, give support and care to persons with Diabetes and to increase more awareness of Diabetes and its consequences on St. Maarten.

Please contact DFS for more information at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

DFS tests are free of charge for the public.