Ministry of Health and Sanitation Launched the STEPS Survey Report
The Ministry of Health and Sanitation has launched a survey report in Free-town that established high prevalence of risk factors for Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD) in Sierra Leone. The STEPwise survey, is a WHO standard-ized methods for collecting, analyzing and disseminating data on NCDs sur-veillances and was conducted in November 2009. The World Health Organisa-tion provided technical and financial support for conducting the survey.
This is the first major national study conducted to establish prevalence of risk factors for cardiovascular and other chronic diseases in the country. When launching the report Mr Mohamed D Koroma, Deputy Minister of Health and Sanitation said “my ministry will use the information as a baseline for the for-mulation of policies to tackle the problem”.