Johor to identify, register those eligible for NCD screening


Ling (right) looking at a model of an Aedes mosquito during the event at SJK (C) Yok Poon in Pengerang.

THE Johor Health Department will double its effort to get more people, especially those in rural areas, to be screened for non-communicable diseases (NCD) under the national PeKa B40 programme.

State health and unity committee chairman Ling Tian Soon said that as of Sept 30, only 8.9%, or 68,478 people had been screened for NCD out of a total of 762,909 eligible individuals.

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