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General News of Sunday, February 3, 2019
Source: Starrfmonline.com
2019-02-03
Deaths attributed to poor lifestyle and irregular stress reports
Hypertension was the leading cause of deaths recorded at the East Regional Hospital in 2018, hospital authorities revealed. HIV / AIDS / retroviral infection was the leading cause of death in the facility the year before.
According to statistics, 210 deaths were recorded in 2018 in 1,131 cases of hypertension, accounting for 13.0% of the total 1,627 deaths recorded at the hospital.
Mortality related to HIV / AIDS and retroviral infections decreased from 201 in 2017 to 207 in 2018.
Stroke, also known as stroke, was ranked third, killing 105 patients during the year under review. The CVA was the leading cause of death at the hospital in 2016.
In his badysis of the situation, Dr. Kwame Anim Boamah, medical director of the Eastern Regional Hospital, attributed the increase in the number of cases of hypertension and related diseases, such as stroke, to a bad mode of life and irregular blood pressure checks, thus strictly respect the prescribed drugs.
He added that hypertension in pregnant women was also considered a major contributor to the 36 maternal deaths recorded in the facility during the year under review.
Conbad asphyxia, chronic cirrhosis of the liver, sepsis / sepsis, pneumonia, kidney disease, diabetes mellitus and prematurity also killed 412 patients in the hospital.
This was revealed during the Hospital's annual interaction with the media.
Dr. Boamah said that the hospital had undertaken investment projects and installed advanced medical equipment, including endoscopy and diagnostic laparoscopy, to improve the quality of care provided and to save more lives, consistent with its vision of being a center of excellence in the delivery of health care.
At the same time, the hospital management expressed its commitment to engage with the media to intensify health awareness in the region to ensure that the public waives a lifestyle dangerous to health to reduce the worrying trend.
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