WHO aims to decrease deaths from chronic disease
9th Oct 2005, 19:38 GMT
During the next 10 years, 388 million people will die from noncommunicable illnesses such as heart disease, cancer or diabetes, and 36 million of those deaths could be avoided by simple and cheap intervention, the World Health Organization said in a report released last week. "The lives of far too many people in the world are being blighted and cut short by chronic diseases," said Lee Jong-wook, WHO director-general. WHO has outlined aims to reduce deaths from chronic diseases by 2 percent during the next decade, which it says would save 36 million lives, 28 million of which are in low- and middle-income countries.
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