{"id":186890,"date":"2024-12-19T12:46:26","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T10:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-ghncda-expresses-concern-about-ncd-related-deaths-in-ghana\/"},"modified":"2024-12-19T12:46:26","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T10:46:26","slug":"ghana-ghncda-expresses-concern-about-ncd-related-deaths-in-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-ghncda-expresses-concern-about-ncd-related-deaths-in-ghana\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: GhNCDA Expresses Concern About NCD-Related Deaths in Ghana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">The Ghana Non-Communicable Diseases Alliance (GhNCDA), a non-governmental organisation (NGO), has expressed concern about the increasing deaths relating to non-communicable diseases (NCD) in the country, and the world in general, which called for relevant action to reduce the negative development.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">The NCD including cancers, diabetes and stroke among others have become common diseases, which formed about 45 per cent of the death rates in the country, which called for pragmatic efforts to reverse&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202412180629.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ghana Non-Communicable Diseases Alliance (GhNCDA), a non-governmental organisation (NGO), has expressed concern about the increasing deaths relating to non-communicable diseases (NCD) in the country, and the world in general, which called for relevant action to reduce the negative development. The NCD including cancers, diabetes and stroke among others have become common diseases, which formed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":186891,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,7167,8601,11664,4508,4509,50213,50214,257,254],"class_list":["post-186890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-concern","tag-deaths","tag-expresses","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-ghncda","tag-ncdrelated","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}