By Albert Allotey
Accra, April 05, GNA – Mr Labram Musah, the Executive Director of the Vision for Accelerated Sustainable Development (VAST-Ghana) has urged the public to take physical activity seriously to prevent diseases.
He said noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) such as hypertension, diabetes, cancers, respiratory diseases were on the rise and the only means of preventing or reducing them was through exercise.
Mr Musah gave the advice in an interview after leading some staff members of the Ministry of Health in aerobics as part of the commemoration of the World Physical Activity Day 2025 in Accra on Thursday.
He said physical activity was one of the potent medicines that God has given mankind and encouraged everyone, especially offices and establishments to fix some days for exercise to increase the physical and mental wellbeing of their staff.
“People of all walks of life, children, old people, young men and women, everyone should get involve in physical activity to prevent any chronic disease,” he stated
Mr Musah said his organisation would ensure that they pitch camp with the public and private sectors to imbibe into them the need for deliberative efforts to introduce physical activity into their work routine.
“We are hoping to pitch camp at the Food and Drugs Authority, Ghana Health Service, National Health Insurance Authority so to imbibe into them the need and the urgency for physical activity in an effort to help reduce the upsurge of NCDs,” he stated.
“Indeed, being involved in physical activity reduces the attempt to which people fall ill or contract chronic diseases like the cancers, hypertension, diabetes, and the rest that we know,” he noted.
Mr Prince Amoah of the Public Health Department of the Ministry of Health advised the public to adopt physical activity as a lifestyle/habit to improve their health and to reduce the prevalence NCDs in the country.
“As we say no amount of physical activity that would not produce a benefit. The little you can do you will reap a benefit out of it. The more you do, the more the better,” he noted.
Madam Charity Sackitey of the Ministry of Health who participated in the aerobics expressed happiness and said in the past it was in existence in the Ministry and appealed to VAST-Ghana to help revive it.
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