A non-Governmental Organisation, NGO, Moole Charity Foundation, has said that the major causes of death in Nigeria were high blood pressure and hepatitis.
The Project Manager of the organisation, Dr Linda Odoh, said this in an interview with newsmen on the sideline of project “Silent killers’’ campaign held in Abuja.
Odoh said that regular medical checkup would go a long way in reducing the risks and complications associated with these diseases.
She said the project was organised to also conduct free testing and screening for the public on hypertension, high blood pressure, diabetes, hepatitis, malaria and HIV.
“The reason we are screening people is because the major causes of death in our environment today are caused by these silent killer diseases.
“They are called silent killers, because you would not know that you have it until you get tested, if you do not check regularly you will not know that you are at risk,” she said.
