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Municipalities and Wellness
posted (October 3, 2018)
Dieting and exercising is tough to stick to especially if you have spent most of your life avoiding it. Well, the Ministry of Health along with the Mayor's from all municipalities countrywide have committed to help you, the citizens, live a longer and healthier life. The partners signed a Memorandum of Understanding in Belmopan today to promote wellness spaces and healthy lifestyles. Here is more from the signing.

Robyn Daly, Nutritionist
"The purpose for this whole campaign and this signing is to create and secure partnerships with the Ministry of Health as well as with the various municipalities and the Mayor's."

Jules Vasquez, reporter
"What will happen in these municipalities, what can residents expect?"

Robyn Daly, Nutritionist
"We want to have more wellness, more health activities being showed in different municipalities so the agreement really is to tell them to partner with us and share our ideas, to collaborate to have health and wellness promotion."

Hon. Pablo Marin, Minister of Health
"We have a lot of NCD's and we are committed to reduce the NCD mortalities, not only here in the country but worldwide."

"I have already put four wellness parks, two in Corozal, one in Benque and one in PG, those are already up, I am getting more for us to fill all the town and cities in the country, I hope by December I have all of them and I am going with a campaign all over the country in all market places I will have my people testing at least twice a month to everybody who wants to test to see how your sugar level is and your weight and that will contribute and let you know what you are to do."

Jules Vasquez
"How do you bridge that gap between initiative and action?"

Khalid Belisle, Mayor, Belmopan
"Well that is part of what I touched on in my short address this morning that we can provide the facilities, we can have the education campaigns, we can do everything that we can possibly do as community leaders but it will take the by in from the residents of each municipality in this instance to make it a success and get us to where we are trying to get to in terms of overall health."

There will be consultations with the residents in each municipality to get feedback and ensure that this project is a success.

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