AMMAN — Deputizing
for Princess Muna Al-Hussein, Minister of Health Firas Al-Hawari inaugurated
the activities of the health camp for children with type 1 diabetes, which is
being held at a tourist resort by the Nurses Syndicate under the slogan
“Together we beat diabetes” and will last for four days, according to
Al-Mamlaka TV.
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A statement by
the Ministry of Health on Saturday cited Hawari as saying that the ministry is
cooperating with the Ministry of Education and the Royal Health Awareness
Society to prepare a campaign to change societal behavior and prevent obesity
among school students, given the importance of health education in preventing,
treating, and reducing the complications arising from obesity and beingoverweight.
Hawari added
that helping families deal with children with diabetes is urgently needed to
mitigate the psychological and social effects of this disease, and will
positively affect the children’s health, enabling them to live a healthy life.
The minister praised the
Nurses Syndicate’s efforts in setting up the camp, expressing hope that it will
be a pioneering experience that could be generalized to include all children
suffering from this disease, adding that type 1 and 2 diabetes, “threaten many
children in the world” due to the change in lifestyle and food, and the high
rates of obesity among children, and that the Ministry of Health is exerting
much effort to prevent this disease, and is working hard to combat it through
many plans and programs aimed at reducing the consumption of food rich in sugar
and saturated fats.
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