The disease sweeping inland Australia is not infectious but it is devastating — and it’s pushing hospitals to the brink of collapse. Medicos warn: ‘This is the real pandemic.’

The national diabetes epidemic is pushing hospitals to the brink of collapse, with up to a third of ­patients in urban centres affected by the condition and kidney di­alysis clinics at absolute capacity in Central Australia, where four out of 10 Aboriginal people have the chronic disease.

Devastating accounts from patients and doctors have revealed a vast tide of human suffering as overloaded hospitals struggle to cope with continual admissions – and many thousands of patients vying to access preventative care.

In a national investigation of the impacts of the devastating disease at the frontlines of the epidemic, The Weekend Australian spoke to doctors in the hardest-hit zones who warned the nation’s health system would soon be overwhelmed by diabetes complications unless primary and pre­ventative care is properly funded.

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