Kolkata Feb 12: The World Health Organisation's Southeast Asia Regional Office (SEARO) has called for heightened political will to tackle emerging threats of non-communicable diseases (NCD) microbial drug resistance and Ebola-like disease outbreaks in the region. NCDs (diabetes cancer) are approaching like a juggernaut threatening communities health systems and economies... if we do not act now... over 60 million have died in India and this will cross a 100 million by 2030 according to estimates. Estimates of future economic loss in India due to NCDs run into trillions of dollars. We can't hope to outrun NCDs without an environment that
