City wins healthy lifestyle award

Davao City was recently cited by the Department of Health (DOH) for its advocacy for a healthy lifestyle.
The recognition, dubbed Outstanding Healthy Lifestyle Advocacy Award, is a first for the city, City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio said.
The mayor said participating local government units (LGU), offices, institutions, and organizations were required to submit their programs on healthy lifestyle in the effort to prevent the spread of non-communicable diseases (NCD) in the country.
Of all the cities that joined in the competition, the Davao City Health Office was given recognition for its health program, especially on anti-smoking, nutrition, promotion of exercise, and healthy diet.
“Ang among gi-highlight didto, among others is the healthy cardiovascular projects sa atoang City Health Office (CHO),” the Mayor said during her weekly press conference at the city hall conference room.
The Mayor said the DOH also granted the CHO with cash prize of P100,000 along with a plaque of recognition.
“They (DOH) asked if we could still join next year and I said ‘yes’ and that we will strengthen our health programs so we could show something new to them,” Duterte-Carpio said in the dialect.
The local CHO won under the ‘government office’ category.
Four other LGUs also received awards under a different category:
–  For the ‘LGU category’ the municipalities of Veruela in Agusan del Sur and Carmona in Cavite were recognized;
– The Episcopal Diocese of Northern Philippines- Bontoc in Mountain Provinces won under the ‘non-government organizations/institutions’ category; and
– The Novartis HealthCare Philippines under the ‘business/commercial’ category.
The awards are held every two years and are a joint project of the DOH with the Philippine Coalition for the Prevention and Control of NCD. [Jade C. Zaldivar]

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