The City Health Center on December 19 in Minsk completes the cycle of this year’s activities on the prevention of noncommunicable diseases with another informational and educational action at industrial enterprises and at the pharmacy RUP Belfarmatsia, BelTA learned from the city Health Center.
Minskers will be able to measure pressure, height, weight, fill out questionnaires for the early detection of cardiovascular diseases, take reminders, booklets on the subject of a healthy lifestyle. Doctors will conduct individual consultations on the prevention of diseases of the circulatory system and the formation of a healthy lifestyle. This time, the shares will be MZKT, bakery No. 2 of the MUE “Minskhlebprom”, NPO Center, Mobile TeleSystems, Kommunarka, Mingorsvet of the Minsk City Executive Committee, Main Accounting Information Center of Belarusian Railways, Belarusian State Institute of Standardization and Certification, and pharmacy No. 34 (on Uralskaya St., 16). Almost all meetings will be held from 10.00 to 15.00.
As explained by the head of the city Health Center Snezhana Kavrigo, a preventive project started in Minsk in February of this year. Health days were held, including at the largest facilities in the city: the railway station, bus station, at the airport, at MAZ, also in shopping malls, shops, in the pharmacy chain of RUE Belfarmaciya and other industrial enterprises and facilities of the capital - every first and third Wednesday of the month. During this time, about 4.8 thousand events took place, which were attended by more than 400 thousand people. According to the survey, which was conducted at the mobile consultation points, the citizens of Minsk called smoking, drinking alcohol, insufficient physical activity, and unhealthy diet the main risk factors for the development of non-communicable diseases. Signs of risk among the participants of the action were noted by more than 94% of respondents. At the same time, everyone understands that maintaining a healthy lifestyle can significantly reduce the likelihood of these diseases.
Non-communicable diseases include cardiovascular, oncological, chronic respiratory diseases, diabetes, mental disorders. There are several risk factors that increase the likelihood of their chronic forms. With age, the risk of cardiovascular diseases increases. Doctors recommend to pay attention to their health to those whose immediate relatives suffered a myocardial infarction or stroke (men under 55 years old, women under 65). In men, heart attacks and strokes on average develop 10 years earlier than women. However, life can be prolonged if you do not smoke, eat right, move more, get rid of overweight, normalize blood pressure, control cholesterol, blood sugar.
"In 2019, such preventive measures will continue. It is planned that mobile medical outposts will be located at permanently operating stationary points. Consultations will be held by the doctors of public health institutions of the city," Snezhana Kavrigo announced.
The action is organized by the City Health Center, the Minsk City Center for Hygiene and Epidemiology, the Health Committee of the Minsk City Executive Committee.
