BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – A senior Barbados health official has described as a “major achievement” the recent agreement by member countries of the World Health Organization (WHO) to draft a comprehensive global monitoring framework for the prevention and control of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD).
Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Joy St. John, who is also the Chairperson of the WHO Executive Board, said NCDs should no longer be considered an issue that people need to confront solely on a personal level.
She said policies should be put in place at a national level to address the population on a whole and welcomed the recent WHO draft accord that sets out indicators and voluntary global targets for the prevention and control of NCDs.