NAIROBI Cheap Jason Kidd Jersey , May 31 (Xinhua) -- Kenya's health ministry on Wednesday launched guidelines to help in the reduction on the use and treatment of tobacco in the East African country.
Principal Secretary in the Ministry of Health Julius Korir said the deaths due to tobacco use in the country have been steadily increasing hence the need to establish tobacco control measures such as offering dependence treatment and cessation services.
"The national guidelines provide up to date measures for the entire healthcare system for alleviating tobacco use as well as focusing on other mitigating factors," Korir said during the occasion that also coincided with the World No Tobacco Day.
Tobacco use is a leading cause of preventable deaths and contracting diseases globally with nearly 6 million fatalities annually attributed to consumption and exposure to smoke.
In Kenya, recent surveys have estimated that the country has 2.5 million adult tobacco users, which translates to 13.3 percent of the population Cheap JaVale McGee Jersey , and 14 percent of citizens are exposed to second-hand smoke at home.
The East African nation has signed and ratified World Health Organization (WHO) protocols to protect the current and future generations from consequences of consumption and exposure to tobacco and to provide rehabilitation and cessation programs to consumers of tobacco product.
Head of Division of Non-Communicable Diseases in the Ministry of Health Gladwell Gathecha said tobacco use affects all the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as it encroaches into every sphere of life and impacts the economy.
According to Gathecha, studies conducted in the country show that there is willingness among tobacco users to quit smoking but many are unable to do so without the help of professional health treatment.
The World No Tobacco Day, observed every year on May 31, is intended to encourage 24-hour period abstinence from all forms of tobacco consumption around the globe.
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PRAGUE Cheap Raymond Felton Jersey , Feb. 25 (Xinhua) -- Czech regional police spokesman Pavel Benedikt Stransky Wednesday disclosed additional details of the shooting attack in the small town Uhersky Brod, wherein a 63-year-old man shot and killed eight people in a restaurant on Tuesday before turning the gun on himself.
Shortly after noon on Tuesday, local police received calls that a man had entered the Druzba restaurant in the small southeastern Czech town and opened fire on the restaurant patrons and staff. A police patrol arrived at the site in ten minutes, but had to take cover as the man opened fire at them. An injured woman managed to escape during the shoot-out.
The attacker called Czech commercial TV station Prima and said he had "a gun and hostages and will make his own decision." Police said that the attacker made the call after killing the people in the restaurant.
According to Stransky Cheap Nerlens Noel Jersey , a police negotiator talked with the attacker on the phone and was trying to found out exactly what was happening, but the squad did not fire as the attacker shot himself dead upon seeing he was surrounded by armed police.
The attacker was a local man who had no criminal record, had been out of work for years, and seemed to be under strong psychological pressure. He also allegedly had problems with his neighbours. He legally owned two guns Cheap Harrison Barnes Jersey , a revolver Alfa and a pistol CZ 75B, which were found by the police in the restaurant; both were made in the Czech Republic.
The eight Czech victims of the shooting attack were seven men aged 27 to 66 and a 43-year-old woman. Another 37-year-old woman was seriously injured, but woke up from an induced coma on Wednesday and is now in stable condition. One man escaped uninjured as he hid in the toilet.
The police made a visit to the shooter's house late Tuesday night but had to force entry as his wife refused to let them in. A doctor entered the house together with the police, and decided to send the wife to the hospital. The wife is allegedly suffering from schizophrenia. The investigators did not say whether the attacker had psychological problems.
Stransky said the investigation was likely to last several weeks at least. The examination of the crime scene ended in the early morning of Wednesday Cheap Seth Curry Jersey , but the police continue to guard the building.
DAMASCUS, July 15 (Xinhua) -- As many as 900 Kurdish fighters have entered Syria via Turkey over the past few days to defend a predominantly Kurdish city in northern Syria against the al-Qaida- breakaway Islamic State (IS) militant group, activists reported Tuesday.
The Kurdish fighters crossed into Syria to join other Kurdish militant groups to defend the city of Ein al-Arab, known as Koban in the Kurdish language Cheap Dirk Nowitzki Jersey , against the IS, whose fighters have besieged the country's third largest predominantly Kurdish city.
According to the report, the fighters have arrived in Ein al- Arab upon the calls of the Kurdistan Workers Party, known as the PKK.
The downfall of the city would mean that the IS could swiftly move east toward other Kurdish cities in Syria Cheap Dennis Smith Jr. Jersey , and the Syrian Kurds have been deadlocked in battles with the IS since last year.
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