In a bid to create awareness on health related matters that will enhance productivity, more so to aid the life expectancy of serving Officers, the Ministry of Works and Housing has organized a one-day Workshop on Health matters for Directors of the ministry.
The one day workshop Organized in recognition of management and capacity building by the Ministry’s Directors in their departments was on stress management like hypertension, diabetes, high cholesterol and Cardiac Arrest.
In his opening address before declaring the workshop open, the Permanent Secretary Of the Ministry, Bashir Nura Alkali, said that the objective of the workshop is to create awareness on early detection of some health-related challenges that are life-threatening diseases before they become intractable.
He stressed 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.
Alkali encouraged the Directors to reap the full benefits of the health talk and promised that the Workshop would be extended to other categories of staff in the Ministry.
The workshop was Organized by Elyon Synergy Ltd, Lagos State in conjunction with the Ministry of Works and Housing. The two Medical Doctors who delivered the talks were Dr. Jacob Nwanchukwu a stress management consultant and Professor, David Oke, the current Provost of the College of Medicine, University of Lagos State, South-west Nigeria.
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.
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 Honourable Ministers for granting approval for this health talk for the Directors of the Ministry.
He therefore called on the Ministers and the Permanent Secretary to take the health issues of its staff seriously.
“It is highly commendable and we should take the health tips serious as recommended by our health experts,” he added.
