WHO Calls For Accelerated Action Against Hepatitis To Address Increasing Liver Cancer Deaths

New Delhi: Calling for accelerated action against hepatitis to address increasing liver cancer deaths in Southeast Asia, the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Saturday called on countries in the Southeast Asia Region to urgently scale up efforts to provide universal access to prevention, vaccination, diagnosis and treatment of viral hepatitis B and C.

Despite being preventable and treatable, these chronic infections are increasingly causing serious illness and deaths from liver cancer, cirrhosis, and liver failure, the WHO said.

“Today,…