A two-day training organized by the Anambra State Ministry of Health for health workers to learn prevention, management and control of non-communicable diseases in the state has ended in Awka, the Anambra State capital.
Speaking during the training held at the Nigeria Medical Association, NMA, house in Awka, the Director, Nursing Services, Anambra State Hospital Management Board, Mrs. Adaobi Ezeani, said the training centred on diabetes and hypertension was designed to train health workers on how best to manage patients with diabetes and hypertension at all times in order to achieve best results.
Delivering a lecture at the event, a consultant cardiologist from Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital, Nnewi, Dr. Chukwudi Nwagbara, who explained that hypertension is a silent killer disease; as it does not give any sign or symptoms, revealed that hypertension can cause heart attacks and blindness, and has no cure.
For Dr. Ejike Okonkwo, also from Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital, Nnewi, whose lecture centred on “knowing your numbers”, advised the health workers to take the messages down to the grassroots to determine the number of people with diabetes and hypertension in the state for the state government to plan for them.
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