‘Letter To The Editor’ – NCDs Data

The recent Fiji College of General Prac­titioners (FCGP) 29th Annual Conference revealed many disturbing information as to how this dreadful disease is on a growth mode, with a huge financial burden on the nation.

However, the president of (FCGP) men­tioned that a third of the population is hy­pertensive, 16.6 per cent smoke daily, 14.4 percentage are diabetic, and 85 percentage are overweight.

This was from an archaic data survey (STEPS) done in 2011 and is about 12 years old. Such outdated data does not reflect real time scenario and is obsolete in nature un­less used for comparison purposes.

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