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Sierra Leone: Bibweg Launches Over Weight, High Blood Campaign


 

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Concord Times (Freetown)

18 July 2008
Posted to the web 18 July 2008

Ben Samuel Turay and Alhassan Bah

A non governmental health organisation Thursday launched the overweight and high blood pressure preventing team at the CSO compound back of Pademba Road prisons in Freetown.

Speaking at the launch the organisation's proprietor Dr. Kingyaw Benjamin said the aim was to help prevent overweight and high blood pressure among people and to help youths and young adults learn skills training.

"We have a brighter future to realising the Millennium Development Goals. This is the great mission of Bibweg. Overweight and obesity has been alarmingly in Africa since 1980," he said.

Dr. Benjamin said their organisation would soon start to go to some schools, institutions, market places, and communities to sensitise them on the issue.

"People can contract high blood pressure through emerging and reemerging diseases, urban indoor and outdoor air pollution, tainted water, inadequate sanitation and sewage pollutant of the sea," he said.

Dr. Benjamin said they could get the disease through salt, magi. He advised people to refrain from eating too much of salt, bread, and magi so that they would be prevented from high blood pressure.

Representative from World Health Organisation (WHO) Kashor Wood said the work of Bibweg was a concern to WHO.

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"I am very much impressed with Bibweg to help on health issues," he said.



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