Diabetes, cancers and chronic respiratory deaths should drop by 25% in Oman, says MoH

Muscat: Deaths from diabetes, cancers and chronic respiratory diseases should drop by 25 per cent in Oman in the next five years, an official at the Ministry for Health said.

Dr. Ahmed bin Saeed Al Busaidi director of non-communicable diseases department at the Ministry of Health, said the role of the national policy for non-communicable diseases, issued earlier this year, is to prevent and delay the occurrence of non-communicable diseases, explaining that it will hopefully achieve a reduction of 25 percent of deaths from non-communicable diseases due to cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancers, and chronic respiratory disease.

He pointed out that the ministry is working to develop a national system for monitoring, evaluation and surveillance of non-communicable diseases through the formation of a national database for non-communicable diseases target and major risk factors relating thereto and referred to in the Global Plan of Action base.