New Delhi, April 8 -- Sangita Reddy, Joint Managing Director, Apollo Hospitals, said that non-communicable disease is a silent tsunami and stressed that it should, therefore, be treated almost like a war situation.

In an exclusive interview with ANI, Sangita Reddy said, "We believe that the non-communicable disease is a silent tsunami, almost like a COVID-type situation, which is silently living among us."

She further explained the key findings of the Apollo Hospitals Health of the Nation 2025 report: "70 per cent of deaths are due to non-communicable disease, and therefore it should be treated almost like on a war footing. One of the important statistics which came out is that an asymptomatic that means with no symptoms, nothing they h...