'Our diet is killing us quietly': Fiji's diabetes crisis

Nearly one-third of Fijians have diabetes, and the disease is often not caught until amputation, or even death, are imminent

At the height of his 15-year career as a surgeon in the Pacific nation of Fiji, Dr Jone Hawea was performing eight to 10 diabetes-related operations every day - at least two of which were the amputations of limbs.

Our wards are always full of diabetes cases. Sometimes our surgical wards wouldn't be able to deal with the non-emergency cases because there's all this diabetes surgery to do," says Hawea.