Community based Screening programme in Primary HealthCare(PHC) institutions to tackle Non Communicable Disease(NCD) burden in Sri nLankaDr Thalatha Liyanage,M.B.B.S., D.F.M., MSc &M.D (Com.Med)Director NCD, Ministry of Health BackgroundIn Sri Lanka, 71% of annual deaths are due to chronic NCDs.Cardiovascular Diseases, Diabetes, Cancers and Chronic Respiratory diseases are rapidly increasing over the last few decades accounted for 29.6%, 9.4%, 3.9% and 8.5% of mortalityrespectively. Risk factors;...
