Health + Tech | Chaining The NCD Beast With Technology
October was celebrated as breast cancer awareness month and it brought into focus the very long-standing and urgent matter of the effect of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) on the Jamaican, Caribbean and world population.
Although most deaths each year are from these diseases, I do not get the feeling that people generally take the issue serious enough.
At a recent event, Minister of Health Dr Christopher Tufton indicated that it will cost the country more than $70 billion in the next 15 years to treat persons with NCDs.