A renowned scholar in cardiovascular medicine at the Technological University of Apartake Akintola (Lautech), Ogbomoso, Professor Adseye Abiodun Akintunde, has charged the Nigerian government to develop and promulgate a legal framework for policies that will improve cardiovascular care in the country.
Professor Akunde declared while presenting the 64th inaugural conference of the university entitled: “The heart and its venomous whispers of disorders: sift wheat from the straw in the auditorium of the university, ogbomoso.
He argue that the government has to take decisive measures to integrate the regular detection of cardiovascular risk factors and take control of the diet, strict controls of drugs and substances, prohibit smoking, regulation of alcohol beverages and energy drinks, air pollution control and guarantee occupational safety for ECV in Nigeria in Nigeria to guarantee a healthier population The strategic partners among the strategic partners among the care of the cardados of the cardados in Nigeria.
While it lists basic cardiovascular care to include the management of uncomplicated CV Risk factors in primary health care centers, prenatal care and HIV care, requested “the government, NGOs and other critical stakeholders to encourage the participatory education of the population in the prevention and protection of CVD”
He requested the institutionalization of periodic and mandatory cardiovascular evaluation throughout the country and the state adoption of the Know Your Numbers campaign (a path for the detection of hypertension, dyslipidemia, obesity and diabetes), which represents 90 percent of the total cardiovascular risk in the population.
By requesting the inclusion of cardiovascular care in the National Health Insurance Scheme and the provision of subsidized medicines to guarantee the continuity of care among patients with CVD, it also revasted improved financing for financing for ECV, including the increase in access to cardiac devices and the establishment of six regional centers for open and closed cardiac surgeries to guarantee professionalism and increased accessibility.
Akintunde observed that the exchange of tasks and the model of change of tasks for cardiovascular care in the population with regular training and monitoring of the interested parties will recruit non -medical health workers to address the risk factors of CDV without complications.
He also revasted to increase financing for research on cardiovascular diseases, with the potential to provide innovative therapies for Africans with heart disease.
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