 I am Dr. Dinesh Kamath, Senior Consultant Physician and Diabetologist at Manipal Northside Hospital, Bangalore. International Diabetic Federation, i.e. IDF, has declared 14th November as World Diabetes Day. This is celebrated all over the world to create awareness to the people about diabetes. On this day, we hold a lot of seminars, exhibitions, marathon walks and even media and news editions about diabetes. So, we educate people on this day about the signs and symptoms of diabetes, its early treatment and prevention of its complications. According to WHO, presently there are about 763 million diabetic population in the world. That means one out of ten people are diabetic presently in the world. China remains the first highest number of diabetic population of about 116 million. India ranks second with 77 million population which is expected to increase to 101 million by the year 2030. So, this is a huge prevalence and it is going to be a burden on our healthcare economics. It is going to reduce the working hours, reducing the productivity and most important it is going to cause pain and suffering for the patients. That mainly when it involves the other organs like heart ailments, brain diseases, kidney failure, blindness and amputations due to gangrene and less blood circulation to the limbs. So, awareness is very important to all the people to change their lifestyle, eat healthy food, do regular exercises, cut down their weight so that we can detect this disease early and prevent the complications. Every year on this World Diabetes Day, the IDF has given a theme so that we can increase the awareness among our people. So, the theme for 2020 is nurses and diabetes. We all know that nurses are the backbone in healthcare delivery system and they have done a wonderful job in taking care of our diabetic patients and also supporting the people who are at high risk of developing diabetes. Nurses form about 50% of the global healthcare professionals. All our diabetic people are undergoing lot of challenges. Many of them do not know what the symptoms are. They are very confused with the different modalities of treatment. They are still doubting about the normal values of sugars. Even the complications, they are not aware between the connection between diabetes and involvement of various organs. So, the nurses being in close contact with our patient for long hours can really help in educating these patients and bringing them or facing their challenges. Nurses are important for the education, spread of education to our diabetic people. Now, WHO and IDF have requested the governments to make policies so that to train our nurses which can help for the educating the diabetic people. So, if the nurses are trained well, they will definitely make a difference for the lives of diabetic people.