Sophiatown gets physical
The community had a day of learning and exercise as they were treated to a day of education around living a healthy lifestyle.
For a community to thrive, its members must be healthy.
So with this in mind, a Healthy Lifestyle event was hosted at Sophiatown Extreme Park and its mission was to educate people on leading a healthy lifestyle.
Hosted by the City of Johannesburg Department of Health and Social Development on May 19, their were discussions on diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, and tuberculosis to name a few. They also conducted free screening of these potentially life-threatening diseases to those in attendance.
Pulane Ramaswe, operational manager for health promotion in Region B, explained they hosted this event to teach the community to take their health into their own hands by aiding them with the tools they would need to sustain and help prolong their lives.
She added that days like these were important because of the change in lifestyles many were faced with and new diseases popping up.
In addition, the youth were getting diseases which normally afflicted older people. “Also if many in the community are not able to get this information, at least those who could come will go out and share this information of the importance of taking care of themselves.”
Since the country had come out of the National State of Disaster, Ramaswe said these sort of health awareness programmes were now able to continue according to plan. In recent times, such events had a heavy focus on Covid-19 education.
Ramaswe concluded the ideal outcome from this day was for people who might have been non the wiser that they were facing a potentially life-threatening disease, to know sooner, as some found out when it was too late.
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