25 July 2016: Fiji signed World Cancer Declaration
Today Minister of Health and Medical Services - Jone Usamate and the Fiji Cancer and WOWs Kids signed the World Cancer Declaration, with the goal to reduce the preventable mortality rate of cancer patients. Fiji is obliged to reduce mortality caused by cancer, because Fiji is covered by World Health Assemby resolutions WHA58.22 (Cancer prevention and control), WPR/RC62.R2 (Expanding and Intensifying Non communicable Disease Prevention and Control), and WHA resolution 66.10 to adopt a global target of a 25% reduction in premature mortality from NCDs by 2025. For Fiji this Declaration is important, because cancer is third cause of death in this country. Also Ministry of Health and Medical Services became in 2015 member of the Union for International Cancer Control.
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