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Thursday, July 3, 2025

Bodoe urges corporate T&T to promote wellness through sport

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Radhica De Silva
52 days ago
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Minister of Health Dr. Lackram Bodoe congratulates the Human Resource and Engineering team of the SWRHA on winning the 2025 March Pass at the SWRHA Sports and Family Day, held at Skinner Park, San Fernando. The team, named “Fiesta Fusion,” impressed with their Calypso Fiesta presentation.

Minister of Health Dr. Lackram Bodoe congratulates the Human Resource and Engineering team of the SWRHA on winning the 2025 March Pass at the SWRHA Sports and Family Day, held at Skinner Park, San Fernando. The team, named “Fiesta Fusion,” impressed with their Calypso Fiesta presentation.

KRISTIAN DE SILVA

Rad­hi­ca De Sil­va

Se­nior Mul­ti­me­dia Re­porter

rad­hi­ca.sookraj@guardian.co.tt

Health Min­is­ter Dr Lack­ram Bo­doe is call­ing on cor­po­rate Trinidad and To­ba­go to in­tro­duce sports and recre­ation pro­grammes for em­ploy­ees as a way to pro­mote a health­i­er na­tion.

He made the call while speak­ing to re­porters af­ter the open­ing of the South West Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty’s Sports Day and Fam­i­ly Fi­es­ta. The bi­en­ni­al event recog­nis­es team­work and com­mit­ment among health­care work­ers.

More than 4,000 em­ploy­ees par­tic­i­pat­ed. Teams rep­re­sent­ed de­part­ments and in­sti­tu­tions in­clud­ing San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal, Point Fortin Hos­pi­tal, wards­maids, Princes Town Dis­trict Health Fa­cil­i­ty, Siparia Dis­trict Health, med­ical or­der­lies, med­ical health records, nu­tri­tion and di­etet­ics, hu­man re­source and en­gi­neer­ing, and the Can­cer Cen­tre of Trinidad and To­ba­go South and New Hori­zons.

The event in­clud­ed nov­el­ty races, food, and ac­tiv­i­ties for all ages.

Ad­dress­ing the is­sue of non­com­mu­ni­ca­ble dis­eases and obe­si­ty, Dr Bo­doe said events like these pro­vide im­por­tant sup­port for med­ical work­ers who serve the pop­u­la­tion dai­ly.

“Sports and fam­i­ly events are very im­por­tant, not on­ly for our own health and for the com­mu­ni­ty but al­so for our own men­tal well-be­ing, and I will con­tin­ue to sup­port and en­cour­age these events,” he said.

He added that fam­i­lies should al­so en­gage in sports. “Obe­si­ty is a big prob­lem we in­tend to ad­dress, es­pe­cial­ly child­hood obe­si­ty, and this is one of the av­enues to en­cour­age chil­dren and young adults to en­gage in sports,” he said.

He said non­com­mu­ni­ca­ble dis­eases like di­a­betes and hy­per­ten­sion are a bur­den on the health sys­tem. “This gov­ern­ment is fo­cused on these is­sues and events like these can help,” he added.

He said cor­po­rate Trinidad and To­ba­go should al­so sup­port sports. “It is im­por­tant in view of the chal­lenges the econ­o­my is fac­ing,” Dr Bo­doe added.

Child­hood obe­si­ty is a ma­jor pub­lic health is­sue, with one in four pri­ma­ry school chil­dren clas­si­fied as over­weight or obese. Ex­perts link this to poor di­etary habits, seden­tary lifestyles, and lim­it­ed phys­i­cal ac­tiv­i­ty.

Dr Bo­doe said pro­mot­ing phys­i­cal ac­tiv­i­ty in both work­place and com­mu­ni­ty set­tings can help re­duce the bur­den of NCDs and build a cul­ture of well­ness across all sec­tors of so­ci­ety.

The win­ner of the march­past was Hu­man Re­source & En­gi­neer­ing, which por­trayed Ca­lyp­so Fi­es­ta. The Ole Mas con­tender We Too Own Way al­so at­tract­ed ap­plause as they took jabs at for­mer Health Min­is­ter Ter­rence Deyals­ingh, hold­ing up a plac­ard with the words: “Ter­rence Hop Off the Team.”

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