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‘Wellness Agenda’ Health Fair set for Uitvlugt Community Centre Ground

Aug 09, 2015 News

Premised on the theme “Make Wellness Your Goal,” the Region Three Health and Wellness Club is gearing to have yet another health fair aimed at emphasising the importance of healthy lifestyle choices. The fair is scheduled for Saturday August 15, 2015 between the hours of 10:00 and 16:00 hours at the Uitvlugt Community Centre Ground, West Coast Demerara, and will see a number of health services being offered to patrons. These will include: a blood drive, blood pressure testing, random blood sugar testing, Body Mass Index (BMI) test, dental examination/extraction, VIA screening and vision testing, among others.
According to Public Relations Officer, Nurse Joan Barry, the Club has already solicited the support of the Ministry of Public Health and other health-affiliated organisations to make the event an ultimate success.  The planned fair will be among several that have been spearheaded by the Club for this year.
Currently the Club has Kimani Urlin as its Chairman. It was officially launched on World Health Day (April 7) of last year. It was however an offshoot of the Region Three Diabetic Association, which was formed in 2011 to raise awareness in Region Three communities about diabetes.
The Club took on the wider mission to educate, support and empower people at a time when the Chikungunya Virus was rampant in many sections of the country including Region Three. Moreover, its introduction was intended to help improve and maintain the overall health and wellbeing of people within the Region by enlightening them of healthy lifestyle choices and behaviours.
The Motto that governs the Health and Wellness Club is: ‘Think healthy, eat healthy, act healthy and be healthy’.
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), health is a state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. As such, promoting healthy lifestyle choices is one that sees advocacy being made for persons to not only embrace healthy eating habits and exercise but also mental stability.
The objective of the Club is to ensure that persons are firstly aware of what the term health means; to ensure that people receive correct and adequate information on prevention and management of health conditions; to teach people how to take responsibility for their own health; to work in collaboration with the health sector, other Ministries and agencies in the Region to improve the health status of people in the Region and to visit residences and homes of the elderly and differently able persons to make sure that they are receiving adequate care.
Achieving this goal has been through medical outreach activities, which have been held on World Health Day and World Diabetes Day, health fairs and other health-related activities held in collaboration with other organisations including churches and schools within the Region.

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