SSNIT Ladies club organises health walk
A health walk exercise championed by the Ladies Club of the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) was held on Saturday at Aburi.
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The walk from Ayi Mensah to the Peduase Lodge was aimed at providing a platform for the ladies to exercise in order to boost more activity, manage their weight and encourage a healthy lifestyle.
Scores of staff of SSNIT participated in the walk through the zigzag road of the rocky Aburi Mountains and ended at the Peduase Lodge.
While some showed endurance in reaching the end, others couldn’t keep up and had to be helped the rest of the exercise with bus rides provided for the purpose.
Addressing the ladies, Professor Samuel Oheneba Dornyo, a Counsellor for SSNIT said the lack of exercises, coupled with sitting in air-conditioned cars and offices for long hours was a cause of heart related diseases.
He described the lack of activities as a “sedentary life”, which comes with consequences such as diabetes, hypertension and high cholesterol, cautioning the ladies to be more active.
Professor Dornyo said even though hereditary predisposition can be cause of such health complications, sedentary life is the number one cause of lifestyle diseases such as hypertension.
He advised the ladies to exercise regularly, take adequate water, manage their food intake and walk for at least thirty minutes every day.
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On her part, the club president Mrs Faustina Nti said the walk was organised to create awareness of the club's rejuvenation and to let people know they are back in their element.
She said the health walk is a kick-start initiative they have taken to live up the cliché of “healthier body in a healthier mind.”
“So from now we know we are healthier in mind and in body to take care of our duties.”
She added that the walk coincides with SSNIT's migration from manual information processing to a safe and faster biometric processing.
Dr. Akwesi Adomako, a specialist at the Trust Hospital, took time to highlight the health complications of hypertension, which he said is the cause of many deaths in the country.
He said although certain risk factors such as old age, one's descent and a positive family history can lead to one becoming a hypertensive person, other conditions such as lack of exercise, overweight, obesity, high salty diets and smoking are factors that predisposes one to become hypertensive.
He advised the women to desist from the practice of taking unprescribed drugs and also admonished them to take their health seriously by visiting the hospital regularly.