The Ghana Non-Communicable Diseases Alliance (GhNCDA), a non-governmental organisation (NGO), has expressed concern about the increasing deaths relating to non-communicable diseases (NCD) in the country, and the world in general, which called for relevant action to reduce the negative development.
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.
Speaking at the opening ceremony of a one-day training workshop for 20 participants 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.
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 participants to take the workshop seriously.
