Barbados losing GDP to NCDs

BARBADOS IS LOSING 2.6 per cent of its Gross Domestic Product due to healthcare costs and productivity losses in respect of diabetes and cardiovascular diseases alone.

This was revealed by Minister of Health, John Boyce, as he addressed the 69th World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland, this week.

He told the Assembly that last year Barbados hosted a mission of the United Nations Inter-agency Task Force on the Prevention and Control of NCDs, and the Task Force had endorsed recommendations made in the Barbados NCD Strategic Plan.

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