2015 World Heart Day:Ghanaians urged to adopt heart healthy lifestyle

Ghana joined the world on Saturday to mark the 2015 World Heart Day with a call on citizens to adopt healthy lifestyle by making healthy choices no matter where they live in order to reduce the risk of heart diseases and stroke.


This year’s event was observed in Accra on September 26 at the Efua Sutherland Children’s Park with lots of activities including health walk, work out and fitness sessions, health checks, blood donations and public talks and exhibition.

It was on the theme: 'Heart healthy environments'.

The day started with a 2-hour health walk exercise early in the morning with over 500 youths including students, health experts, Civil Society Groups and the media in action.

The participants walked through the main streets in front of the Black Star Square, making it through the principal streets in Osu before crossing over through the Ako Adjei interchange route leading back to the Efua Sutherland’s Park where they finally converged to observe the day.

In his address to mark the day, Dr. Lawrence Agyemang Sereboe, Director of National Cardiothoracic Centre, advised the participants in a simple message: “Live a heart healthy lifestyles both at home in your workplace and in school”.

He argued that heart diseases and stroke are more deadly than any other diseases in the world therefore the need to set aside a day like this to create awareness on heart diseases.

“If you take a critical look at the mortality rate of the most killer diseases in the world, like all kinds of cancers, HIV and AIDS,  tuberculosis, malaria, you will realize that the death from the causes of these diseases is less from that of heart diseases and stroke,” Dr. Sereboe argued.

Dr. Sereboe cautioned the public against excessive intake of alcohol beverages and avoid smoking.
He urged Ghanaians to eat more fresh fruits and vegetables and also exercise regularly to keep the heart in a perfect working condition at all times.

Instituted by the World Health Organization in 1999, the World Hearth Day is marked annually and globally to create awareness about heart diseases and stroke prevention as well as promote a healthy heart. Heart Day was also set up to drive home the message that heart problems can be prevented.

According to the World Heart Federation, heart disease and strokes are the world’s leading cause of death, killing 17.1 million people every year – that’s more than victims of cancer, HIV and AIDS and malaria.

It is said that over-eating, lack of exercise, unhealthy diets and high blood pressure, cholesterol and glucose levels are all factors which can trigger heart disease and threaten our own lives, and those of loved ones. 

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