This year slogan on world health day is control your blood pressure. We are aware of the importance of controlling high blood pressure in people attending our outpatient clinics. This is chosen with an aim to prevent the morbidity and mortality associated with the hypertension related cardiovascular outcomes.
The governments should take notice of the importance of implementation of the blood pressure control programs and support them to see that blood pressure of the people at large is kept under control health education and also providing basic medicinal supplies to the people. Ideally it would be helpful to train more paramedical people record the blood pressure and register hypertensive patients e-register so, that necessary supports can reach them to prevent complications.
In our world 9 million death are attributed to the hypertension related complications. That means they are potentially preventable with active implementation of the antihypertensive programs.
from  Pinjala R K,  7th April 2013