{"id":13,"date":"2010-07-23T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-23T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/news\/former-health-minister-concerned-over-prescription-plan-13.html"},"modified":"2010-08-01T01:16:56","modified_gmt":"2010-08-01T01:16:56","slug":"concern-over-prescription-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2010\/07\/concern-over-prescription-plan","title":{"rendered":"Former Health Minister Concerned Over Prescription Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-88\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2010\/politics\/concern-over-prescription-plan-13.html\/attachment\/bernard-nottage\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-88\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"bernard-nottage\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/bernard-nottage.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"365\" height=\"489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/bernard-nottage.jpg 405w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/bernard-nottage-223x300.jpg 223w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 365px) 100vw, 365px\" \/><\/a>FORMER Health Minister Dr Bernard Nottage expressed concern yesterday that despite seeking to expand access to medications, the National Prescription Drug Plan may fail to address the long-standing problem of certain drugs being unavailable at community clinics for those who need them.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Nottage told Parliament he believes Bahamians are on a &#8220;collision course with premature death&#8221; as a consequence of the high prevalence of chronic non-communicable diseases (CNCDs) like diabetes, hypertension and heart disease that are often preventable through lifestyle and dietary changes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FORMER Health Minister Dr Bernard Nottage expressed concern yesterday that despite seeking to expand access to medications, the National Prescription Drug Plan may fail to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}