Dhaka, Nov. 3 -- Developing affordable and accessible preventives and curatives to combat non-communicable diseases like caners and heart ailments came under focus when a Singaporean specialist met the Chief Adviser.

A spokesman for the CA Office said Professor Muhammad Yunus made a call for greater awareness on such fatal diseases during the meeting with leading Singaporean cancer- specialist Professor Toh Han Chong at the Jamuna on Saturday evening.

The head of interim government, Professor Yunus, noted that non-communicable diseases such as cancer, diabetes and heart ailments turned out to be cardinal causes of death across South Asia.

Professor Toh Han Chong, Senior Consultant at the National Cancer Centre, Singapore, was accompani...