Non communicable diseases make poverty even worse, Uruguayan president tells UN

Wednesday, September 21st 2016 - 09:37 UTC

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Addressing the United Nations General Assembly, Uruguay’s President Tabare Vazquez on Tuesday warned against non-communicable diseases, such as cardiovascular ailments, cancer, diabetes and chronic pulmonary pathologies, which he said are the main causes of death particularly in low- and middle-income countries. Read full article

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ChrisR
So Vasquez wanted to lecture the world on health?

This from a President of a country where the vast majority cook their daily meat on a 'log fuelled', brick built barbeque (or a cut out oil barrel) whilst they breath in all the smoke of the burning wood and fats which of course is loaded with carcinogens.

Vasquez is a dollar millionaire from his private oncology clinic and knows this full well. So what does he do to change it? Absolutely nothing.

Lung cancer tgw bowel cancers are the biggest killer in UYU. Our next door neighbour (F) and the one just over the road from us (M) both died with colon cancer last year.

I also have two friend suffering lung cancer.

:o(
Sep 21st, 2016 - 11:44 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Kanye
Were they cooking on oil barrels too?

Are the cancers as high in the middle class ?
Sep 21st, 2016 - 02:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Marti Llazo
Uruguay has made tremendous progress in reducing poverty by providing the means for keeping much of the otherwise potentially productive population permanently stoned on cheap, plentiful, and legal marijuana.
Sep 21st, 2016 - 06:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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ChrisR
@ 3 Marti Llazo

No, they haven't.

Mujica's legacy is 'shit' (do you like that), the farmacias who are supposed to administer this for the government have still to start the scheme and Vasquez is looking to kill it if he can.

There is plenty of weed coming from 'our brothers and sisters' across the Plate.
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