{"id":289792,"date":"2017-01-31T07:08:04","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T07:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=289792"},"modified":"2017-01-31T07:08:04","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T07:08:04","slug":"eastern-regional-hospital-stroke-leading-cause-of-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/01\/eastern-regional-hospital-stroke-leading-cause-of-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Eastern Regional Hospital: Stroke leading cause of death"},"content":{"rendered":"
About 181 people lost their lives as a result of suffering from Cerebrovascular Accident also known as stroke in 2016 at the Eastern Regional Hospital in Koforidua.<\/p>\n
Stroke,\u00a0which topped the top 20 causes of death at the Hospital with HIV\/AIDS, Chronic liver Cirrhosis, other heart diseases, pneumonia, birth Asphyxia, premature births, kidney diseases, septicemia, and prostate cancer had a 1.2 percent increase from the year 2015 where 163 people died from it.<\/p>\n
This was made known at an annual management review meeting held at the Regional Hospital.<\/p>\n