Namibia: Ministry of Health and Social Services Trains Trainers to Strengthen the Clinical Care of NCDs

[WHO] Non Communicable Diseases (NCDs) exerts a growing burden on mortality and morbidity in Namibia. They account for an estimated 43% of total deaths in the country. As part of efforts to reduce this growing burden, the Ministry of Health and Social Services with support from WHO is strengthening the health system to ensure that comprehensive services for prevention and control of NCDs are decentralized to peripheral health facilities. The WHO Package of Essential Non-Communicable Disease interventions or PEN
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - Category: African Health Source Type: news