Newsday Reporter
A TOLL FREE hotline has been launched by the Ministry of Health to support other folks living with non-communicable ailments (NCDs).
An announcement on September 2 stated the 24-hour hotline provides medical recommendation and enhance for folk who disclose residence blood rigidity or blood glucose displays and beget effectively being-linked questions, concerns about ordinary readings or every other NCD linked components.
The hotline – 899-4NCD (4623) – was launched in August.
The ministry stated the telemedicine call centre is staffed with professional nurses and medical doctors who can present linkage to care with discover up interventions equivalent to referrals to native effectively being centres, ambulance services and emergency departments to facilitate acceptable discover up care.
This hotline is a key component of the ministry’s Hypertension and Diabetes (HTN/DM) Self-Management Initiative, aimed at addressing the increasing incidence of power illness conditions in Trinidad and Tobago.
To boot to the hotline, the ministry is encouraging other folks to switch to its website online www.effectively being.gov.tt and discover them on social media for further info and updates.
In response to a story by Newsday journalist Janelle de Souza, published online on June 23, from the year 2004, NCDs accounted for over 60 per cent of all deaths on this country and has has been the main cause within the support of deaths in TT fixed with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO).
The story highlighted a 2015 Clinic Utilisation Document, which stated that for that year, 25 per cent of deaths had been resulting from heart illness, 14 per cent to diabetes, 13 per cent to cancer and ten per cent to cerebrovascular illness (conditions that beget an label on blood scurry at the side of the circulation to the mind).
And, fixed with the Worldwide Diabetes Basis – the file added – in 2021, there was a 14.8 per cent incidence of diabetes in adults in TT.
