Collaborators :
1. HEALTH & FAMILY WELFARE DEPARTMENT | Government - Tripura
2. Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI)
3. All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS)
4. Centre for Chronic Disease Control (CCDC), New Delhi
In 2008, out of the 57 million global deaths, 36 million deaths, or 63%, were due to non-communicable diseases (NCDs), principally cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, cancers and chronic respiratory diseases. In India, the estimated deaths due to NCDs in 2008 were 5.3 million (World Health Organization - NCO Country Profiles, 2011). The overall prevalence of diabetes, hypertension, Ischemic Heart Diseases (IHD) and stroke in India is 62.47, 159.46, 37.00 and 1.54 respectively per 1000 population (Indian council for Medical Research, 2006). Recognizing the growing threat to public health due to the burgeoning non-communicable diseases, there is an urgent need to build capacity of the health system for effective prevention, management and control of NCDs. Insufficient number of adequately trained manpower is a major impediment to the health systems in implementing the National Program for the Prevention and Control of Cancer Diabetes Cardiovascular diseases and Stroke (NPCDCS). In this premises, the Government of Tripura proposed to implement an ‘NCD INITIATIVE’ in Tripura in collaboration with the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI), and Centre for Chronic Disease Control (CCDC) to build capacity for NCD prevention and control in the state.
