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Operational guidelines launched for integration of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease with NPCDCS
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Last Updated: Feb 22, 2021, 04:42 PM IST
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Synopsis Over the last two decades global burden of NASH has more than doubled. Globally, NASH caused 40 lakh prevalent cases of compensated cirrhosis in 1990, which increased to 94 lakh cases in 2017. NAFLD is emerging as an important cause of liver disease in India, Vardhan was quoted as saying in a Health Ministry statement.
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Researchers have found NAFLD in 40 to 80 per cent of people who have type 2 diabetes and in 30 to 90 per cent of people who are obese, he said.
Underscoring the importance of tackling NAFLD (Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease) as a step to deal with the country s burden of non-communicable diseases, Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Monday launched the operational guidelines for Integration of NAFLD with NPCDCS (National Programme for Prevention and Control of Cancer, Diabetes, Cardiovascular Disea
A medical worker prepares to inoculate a woman in Amritsar. | Narinder Nanu/AFP
Anjela Tirki was vaccinated for Covid-19 at the Community Health Centre of her block in Chhattisgarh. An accredited social health activist or ASHA, part of the network of community health workers under the National Health Mission, she did not get any document stating that she had received the first dose of the coronavirus vaccine.
“The hospital people were doing a lot of documentation but I didn’t get any paper,” said Tirki, whose name has been changed to protect her identity. Neither was she aware that she had to take a second dose. She said: “I didn’t know that I would get another vaccine dose. I wasn’t told anything of that sort.”