NOUMEA, New Caledonia (Reuters) - Asian and Pacific nations are struggling to stem the rise in cancer and heart diseases which kill 25,000 people a day in the region, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Tuesday.
A WHO report on non-communicable diseases in the Western Pacific, which stretches from China to Fiji, said health services could be overwhelmed by chronic diseases, many largely preventable, unless extra resources were quickly allocated.
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