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Chairman of Risk Communication and Social Mobilization Committee for Ghana’s COVID-19 Response Team, Dr Dacosta Aboagye has mentioned Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD) to be the major cause of death among people who contracted the COVID-19.

According to the Director of Health Promotion in Ghana, one of the many things that COVID-19 has taught the medical team is that majority of the people who have died of the novel coronavirus suffered hypertension or diabetes.

“One thing we have seen has to do with issues like hypertensions and diabetes; it has gotten to a point as a country where we have to take them very serious and make sure that we wage war against the non-communicable diseases because majority of the people who died of covid-19 are either diabetes or hypertension and it is happening all over the world,” he hinted.

“We have to concentrate on how to fight these non-communicable diseases and I am sure that if it were not the non-communicable diseases, in fact the covid-19 death rate would have reduced drastically if you look at the data,” he emphasized.

Speaking on Okay FM’s 'Ade Akye Abia' Morning Show, Dr Aboagye Dacosta however requested the media to help the frontline health workers to make noise about the issue of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD) in order to know as a country where resources should be pushed to.

“The media should help us make noise about it in order to know as a country where we have to invest our resources. We have to encourage people to do regular exercise; physical exercise is very necessary and we also have to encourage Ghanaians to eat our local foods and have enough sleep and avoid stress as well as eat more fruits and vegetables than the carbohydrate foods,” he urged.

“All these are the education we have to give to Ghanaians in order to reduce hypertension, diabetes and all the non-communicable diseases. This is what the covid-19 has taught us as frontline health workers fighting the COVID-19,” he indicated.