World Health Day to be celebrated on April 7

Accra, Jan. 29, GNA- The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Thursday projected that by the year 2020, road traffic accidents could rank third in the order of causes that contributed to ill health. "Road traffic injuries are a major global public health and development concern, disproportionately affecting certain vulnerable groups of road users; their magnitude is expected to rise considerably in the years ahead"

This was in a message issued by the World Health Organisation for World Health Day 2004, under the theme "Road Safety "

The day scheduled for April 7 is to be celebrated globally to raise awareness on the health impact and societal cost of road traffic injuries and to initiate measures that would help reduce the burden on society.

At a planning meeting in Accra participants deliberated on how to get road safety messages down to pedestrians, passengers, motorcyclists, cyclists and school children.

It called on the media to write articles that would portray the magnitude of the problems.