KAYBIANG Tunnel,
Ternate-Nasugbu Road
Sharing the road is good; sharing it for your healthiness is better.
The medical community has actually joined members of civil society teams and the academe in endorsing a campaign called “kalyesharing”—opening up the roads and sustaining them safe for pedestrians and cyclists to enable people to lead healthier lifestyles.
Health records prove to much more compared to 300,000 Filipinos die from noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) such as heart ailments, stroke, cancer and chronic lung disease.
The rising incidence of NCDs in the country, it has actually been noted, is largely caused by increased life expectancies, rapid urbanization and deteriorating lifestyles where smoking, drinking alcohol, consuming an harmful diet plan and lacking bodily activity take predominance.
At a healthiness forum on Thursday, Philippine Medical Association president Dr. Minerva Calimag said that making an “enabling environment” would certainly sway Filipinos to consume healthier and engage much more in bodily activities.
This ought to contain making healthy and balanced meals much more accessible, increasing the rate of tobacco products to discourage smoking and providing the public along with much more walkways and open spaces.
“Educating patients to modification their lifestyle will certainly not work. The most effective example are doctors. We understand all of we have to understand concerning healthiness and yet we consume unhealthy, we don’t workout and several of us smoke,” Calimag said.
“It’s time to begin looking in to the viability of making space for bodily tasks to promote a healthy and balanced lifestyle while addressing the traffic congestion in the metropolis,” said Dr. Antonio Dans, president of the Philippine Society of General Internal Medicine and chair of the advocacy committee of the Philippine College of Physicians.
On Feb. 7, members of the 2 medical teams will certainly join the Bayanihan sa Daan Movement in staging a kalyesharing on Roxas Boulevard in cooperation along with the Department of Science and Technology (DOST), Department of Health, Metropolitan Manila Progress Authority and others agencies.
The daylong event will certainly encourage pedestrians and bikers to occupy the entire stretch of the busy thoroughfare’s southbound lane and engage in bodily activities.
“This is a quite substantial step to improve the awareness of Metro Manila residents concerning the importance of opening up the roads to bikers and pedestrians,” said Dans.
Bayanihan sa Daan Movement spokesperson Paulo Burro said the DOST will certainly delivering its hybrid electronic road train to the event.
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