There was a shocking reality that got exposed from a Singapore-based group who are combating the instance of spreading of viral hepatitis called for greater political will to combat the disease on Friday, as new data showcased it killed one person every 30 seconds in Asia.
Further, Ding-Shinn Chen, chair of NGO the Coalition to destroy utterly the Viral Hepatitis in Asia Pacific (CEVHAP), mentioned the current figures show that one million people experienced death from the illness in the region annually, elevated from 695,000 in 1990. This translates to one person dying every 30 seconds due to hepatitis revealed by the figures, derived from the current Global Burden of Disease Study furthered by the University of Washington.
The results were released publicly in June.
That's really fatal at the same time demands intensive safeguard to diminish it's intensity of spreading.
(AW:Samrat Biswas)
