{"id":2556,"date":"2019-05-22T08:41:11","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T08:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=2556"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:18","slug":"94000-die-of-non-communicable-diseases-annually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/05\/22\/94000-die-of-non-communicable-diseases-annually\/","title":{"rendered":"94,000 Die of Non-Communicable Diseases Annually"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>BY RAISSA SAMBOU\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More than\n94,000 people die of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in Ghana every year, a\nstudy by the Ghana Non-Communicable Disease Alliance (GhNCDA) has revealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The deaths,\naccording to the non-profit organization, amounts to 43 per cent of all deaths\nin the country annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking at\nthe launch of the Ghana Advocacy Agenda of People Living with NCDs in Accra\nyesterday, Mr. Labram Musah, National Coordinator of GhNCDA said people\nsuffering from NCDs, mainly cancer, cardiovascular disease, chronic respiratory\ndiseases and diabetes often become disabled due to their condition and were\ndiscriminated against, mostly in terms of education and employment\nopportunities. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanaiantimes.com.gh\/94000-die-of-non-communicable-diseases-annually\/\">Read\nmore\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY RAISSA SAMBOU\u00a0 More than 94,000 people die of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in Ghana every year, a study by the Ghana Non-Communicable Disease Alliance (GhNCDA) has revealed. The deaths, according&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}