Table 4: Non-communicable disease profiles of study participants.

Types of NCD Frequency Percentage
Diabetes 26 10.84
Cardiac (Heart failure) 12 5.00
Hypertension 30 12.50
Asthma/COPD* 11 4.58
Mental Illness 8 3.33
Epilepsy 8 3.33
Multi-morbidity** 25 10.42

*Only one COPD patient included; NCD- Non-Communicable Disease, COPD- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease ** co-occurrence of two or more than two chronic non-communicable diseases