Chronic diseases rise alarmingly
Monday, 13 December 2010
FE Report
The burden of chronic diseases like diabetes and heart disease are increasing alarmingly in low and middle-income countries and 58 per cent of total deaths in 2008 were caused by chronic diseases, disclosed physicians and experts at a seminar Sunday.
The speakers informed that a combined global action to prevent chronic diseases could save the lives of 36 million people who would otherwise be dead by 2015, according to the WHO report titled "preventing chronic diseases: a vital investment".
The experts said, simple and highly cost effective preventive and curative interventions, targeting major risk factor of chronic diseases were well established but remained under-utilised.
They emphesised on the need of sharing knowledge to practice to halt or slow the unnecessary human tragedy posed by chronic diseases while they were speaking at the inauguration ceremony of a two-day regional seminar on public health, held at the Bangladesh Institute of Health Sciences (BIHS) campus, organised jointly by BIHS and University of Oslo, Norway.
Adviser to the Prime Minister on health and family welfare and social welfare ministry Professor Syed Modasser Ali addressed the programme as chief guest while chairman of Diabetic Association of Bangladesh (DAB) and the governing body of BIHS Professor AK Azad Khan presided over the programme.
The burden of chronic diseases like diabetes and heart disease are increasing alarmingly in low and middle-income countries and 58 per cent of total deaths in 2008 were caused by chronic diseases, disclosed physicians and experts at a seminar Sunday.
The speakers informed that a combined global action to prevent chronic diseases could save the lives of 36 million people who would otherwise be dead by 2015, according to the WHO report titled "preventing chronic diseases: a vital investment".
The experts said, simple and highly cost effective preventive and curative interventions, targeting major risk factor of chronic diseases were well established but remained under-utilised.
They emphesised on the need of sharing knowledge to practice to halt or slow the unnecessary human tragedy posed by chronic diseases while they were speaking at the inauguration ceremony of a two-day regional seminar on public health, held at the Bangladesh Institute of Health Sciences (BIHS) campus, organised jointly by BIHS and University of Oslo, Norway.
Adviser to the Prime Minister on health and family welfare and social welfare ministry Professor Syed Modasser Ali addressed the programme as chief guest while chairman of Diabetic Association of Bangladesh (DAB) and the governing body of BIHS Professor AK Azad Khan presided over the programme.