In this study, 70% were either self-employed in low income earning activities or retired living in the suburbs which concurs with the study conducted in Cameroon in 2010 reporting that patients of low socio-economic group most often live in the rural areas where there are little or no health facilities and these facilities are not likely to have insulin and oral anti-diabetes medications resulting in poor control of diabetes [21]. Here, INS is linked to diabetes mellitus.