An official speaking about an awareness lecture at a workshop.
Doha: The Ministry of Public Health organised a number of health awareness lectures and workshops for the children of the Orphans Care Center (Dreama) attended by incubators and employees of the centres. The lectures aim to consolidate the concepts of healthy lifestyles among the beneficiaries of the centre and raising awareness and health education among them.
Dreama Executive Director, Maryam Ali Al Misnad, said the lectures are part of the fruitful cooperation between the Ministry and the centre. The lecture on obesity and its prevention aimed to raise educational and health awareness for the children and incubators to urge them to adopt a healthy lifestyle and encourage them to improve their way of life at all levels, she added.
The Ministry’s head of health promotion and non-communicable diseases, Sheikha Dr Al Anoud Mohammad Al Thani, said the cooperation between both parties is part of their keenness to raise health awareness in the Qatari community in light of the National Health Strategy 2018-2022, which focuses on seven priority population groups, including healthy children and adolescents.
Sheikha Dr Al Anoud Mohammad Al Thani said the lecture topics were picked carefully and in compliance with a comprehensive strategy that contributes to creating a safe and healthy environment and in accordance with the priorities of health education for different age groups of beneficiaries of the centre. She also praised the cooperation with Dreama on this matter.
The lecture included an introduction on overweight, obesity, body mass and waist circumference in addition to the dangers of obesity. The lectures also spoke about Qatar nutrition guidelines, eight recommendations of the nutrition guidelines and the importance to keep a healthy and balanced diet that includes all six food groups.
The workshops touched on reducing foods that contain high sugar, salt and fats, exercising, drinking sufficient amounts of water, maintaining healthy weight and recommendations to lose weight.
