By Perpetua Onuegbu
The Ministry of Works and Housing, (FMWH) has organised a one-way health talk for directors to increase life expectancy of its work force.
The Director of Press and Public Relations, FMWH, Mrs Blessing Lere-Adams made this known to newsmen in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja.
Adams said the workshop was on stress management, hypertension, diabetes, high cholesterol, work-life balance and Cardiac Arrest.
She said the workshop was organized by Elyon Synergy Ltd, Lagos, in conjunction with the Ministry of Works and Housing.
In recognition of the important roles directors play in their fields and capacity in managing staff and material resources of their departments.
The Permanent Secretary, Mr Bashir Alkali, said that the objective of the workshop was to create awareness on early detection of some health-related challenges that were life-threatening diseases before they became intractable.
Alkali added that the Ministry has maintained a robust plan as part of its efforts to improve the welfare and general well-being of its staff as part of its reward system.
” It is my pleasure therefore to underline that the health plan which initially began as a bi-monthly routine medical check-up has been scaled up to include an annual health talk for all staff of the Ministry .” he said
He encouraged the directors to reap the full benefits of the health talk and promised that the health talk workshop would be extended to other categories of staff of the Ministry.
Two Medical Doctors delivered the talks; Dr Jacob Nwanchukwu a Stress Management Consultant and Prof. David Oke, current Provost of the College of Medicine, University of Lagos.
Some of the important health topics discussed included : Prevention and Control of Hypertension, Economic Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases .
Discussed extensively also were, kidney functions, failure and treatment, modern methods of diabetic management, sudden death and technology of medical devices.
Others are high cholesterol and physical exercise for fitness, finance, wellness and stress-free investments were emphasised.
The workshop was well attended by the Directors of the Ministry because of the invaluable benefit of health in relation with their work fields and capacities.
Giving his Vote of thanks, the Director, Human Resources, Alhaji Aliyu Abdullahi, appreciated the Minister for granting approval for the talk.
Abdullah said it showed the minister and perm. sec. valued the management of the ministry and therefore take seriously the health issues of its staff.
“It is highly commendable and we should take the health tips serious as recommended by our health experts,” he said.(NAN)