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\u00a0The Ghana Non-Communicable Diseases Alliance (GhNCDA), a non-governmental organisation (NGO), has expressed concern about the increasing deaths relating to non-communi\u00adcable diseases (NCD) in the country, and the world in general, which called for relevant action to reduce the negative development.<\/p>\n
The NCD including cancers, diabetes and stroke among others have become common diseases, which formed about 45 per cent of the death rates in the country, which called for pragmatic efforts to reverse the trend and to improve health conditions of Ghanaians.<\/p>\n
Speaking at the opening ceremony of a one-day training workshop for 20 partici\u00adpants from Kpando and Ho Municipality, Central Tongu and Adaklu districts on improved lifestyles and advocacy on NCD at Adaklu-Kodzobi in the Adaklu District of the Volta Region yesterday, a facilitator and an official of GhNCDA, Mr Labram Musah, said the workshop was designed to train the participants who would also inturn train others in their communities.<\/p>\n
Mr Musah continued that the objective of the workshop was to create the needed awareness on NCD to ensure that stigma and loss of confidence among patients would be reduced, and asked the partici\u00adpants to take the workshop seriously.<\/p>\n
He said the GhNCDA had alliance and networked in the Greater Accra Region, Ashanti, and Western North regions and partially in the Eastern Region and soon the Volta Region would become part of the region of alliance to intensify education among the public on the need to reduce NCDs, which mostly occurred through poor lifestyle.<\/p>\n
Mr Musah therefore appealed to the gov\u00adernment to invest much in prevention of non-communicable diseases in the country, and lauded government\u2019s efforts at includ\u00ading dialysis service in the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS).<\/p>\n
He explained that GhNCDA was an umbrella body of 15 different organisa\u00adtions which tried to advocate on NCDs and embarked on regular education on lifestyle changes that would improve on their heath and enable them to lead healthy lives to contribute meaningfully to national devel\u00adopment.<\/p>\n
The Executive Director of Stroke Associ\u00adation Support Network-Ghana (SASNET), Mr Ebenezer Adams, said his outfit had collaborated with the Ministry of Health, Ghana Health Service (GHS), academia, and other partners in the communities in the promotion of healthy lifestyle of persons living with NCDs.<\/p>\n
This he said would go a long way to pro\u00admote quality and healthy life among Ghana\u00adians, saying diabetes, stroke, cancer among others were diseases that mostly affected the rich in the past but such diseases had no boundaries in recent times, therefore the education to create awareness among the people would help in achieving the Sustain\u00adable Development Goal three (SDG3).<\/p>\n
The Chief of Adaklu-Kodzobi, Togbe Degbladze commended the organisers of the programme and appealed to the Ho Mu\u00adnicipal Assembly to improve on the facilities at the Community-Based Health Planning Services compound (CHPS).<\/p>\n
\u00a0FROM SAMUEL AGBEWODE,<\/p>\n
ADAKLU-KODZOBI<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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