Minister emphasises importance of exercise

RAWALPINDI:

Punjab’s Health Minister Dr Javed Akram underscores the significance of exercise and walking for both a healthy life and treatment of various ailments. While leading a three-day health conference in Bhurban, he joined numerous doctors in a brisk two-kilometre mountain track walk.

During the journey, he highlighted the importance of physical activity and attributed many health problems to the lack of attention to physical fitness, asserting that exercise and walking are crucial in preventing conditions like high blood pressure, diabetes, and heart diseases. He also called out doctors to encourage their patients to adopt healthy lifestyles.

He underscored the role of doctors in promoting a healthy lifestyle as a natural means to combat diseases, stressing the significance of a balanced diet. He said he believes that every human life is invaluable, and physicians should prioritise saving lives. He said health is also wealth and most diseases can be fought with natural immunity.

Dr Javed called out doctors to encourage their patients to adopt a healthy lifestyle instead of relying on medicines, which is a natural way of fighting diseases.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 23^rd, 2023.