Nigeria: FG Inaugurates Technical Working Group On NCDs

4 August 2011

In the run-up to the High level United Nation Summit on Non- Communicable Diseases (NCD) scheduled to take place in New York, September 16- 19, 2011, The Federal Government recently inaugurated a Technical Working Group to articulate the country's position.

Inaugurating the committee, Minister of Health Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu who is also the Chairman of the Committee assured that the UN high level summit would raise profile of Non-Communicable Diseases which constitute a major burden of disease in the developed countries.

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