World Diabetes Day Fitness Exercises and Lions roar
BAGUIO CITY – (November 13, 2022) – The LIONS CLUB INTERNATIONAL, D 301-C has been united in the celebration of World Diabetes Day simultaneously attended by 13 clubs and the participation of some colleges institution for volunteering the said event held in Grandstand, Melvin Jones.
District Governor Mark Jefferson Ng. PMJF gave an inspirational message and thanked the clubs and the participating institution.
With the collaboration of the Lions Club International District 301-C and the presence of Baguio Magnolia, Baguio City Host, Baguio Family and Friends, Baguio Kindasan, Cordillera, Adibay, Baguio Session, Baguio Chrysanthemum, Baguio SLU Medicine Campus, and Baguio Everlasting
Also with the participation of the Data Center Philippines, Saint Louis University, University of the Cordilleras, Red Cross Philippines, and our friends from the Philippine Medical Women Association, I am very grateful to all of you.
“Our intends awareness on how we can prevent diabetes,”
In an interview with Past District Governor Charlie Loy Torres, “This is a yearly activity a Diabetic screening which is a simultaneous project the whole world because Lions is an International humanitarian service located in 210 countries. All Lions here in Baguio have 16 clubs they have collaborated and we have this one-time big-time diabetic screening now.
“So far ang finding natin ay medyo mataas ang may mga diabetes kasi knowing na marami ang matataas ang sugar sa kababayan natin dito sa Baguio, looking at the records marami po kaya we cannot blame na marami rin mga diabetic patient sa BGH that must possible kailangan I control natin, we have to do daily routine na sa atin ito but part is one of the project of the Lions Club.
Because we have six main concern projects of Lions such as Diabetes, cancer, environment, education those are the things na yearly na ina adopt namin so, in every quarterly o month activities ay naka fix na itong program namin,”
“Sa Christmas we will be having Christmas giving for the cancer patient in BGH yun ang part namin at the same time gift giving sa mga blind, kasi Lion is for the blind,”
“We are talking of Baguio club we have 16 clubs, and we have the Region Chair, the Region Chair is just like the little Governor because the District is handled by the District Governor which covers the whole of Northern Luzon from Cordillera, Region 1, Region 2 as far as Batanes horizontal ang covered ng Distrito natin we are under District 301-C, Northern Philippines, in our District we have 47 clubs composed of 1,700 members,” Torres concluded
Accoding to Region Chair Chito Tee – Region Chairperson District 301-C “Itong national wide simultaneous Diabetes awareness kailangan natin ito dahil lumalaki na ang bilang ng may diabetes halos nasa 264 milyon worldwide kaya kailangan maging aware tayo at kaya natin pinapatupad ito para malaman ng mga tao kung paano tayo maging maingat na maiwasan ang sakit na ito,”
“Maging aware tayo sa mga pagkain na alam natin bawal kainin, depende rin yan sa tao yan, kasi yun mga kinakain natin ngayon hindi na gaanong healthy, kaya moderate na lang ang pagkain sa mga bawal sa ating katawan,” pagtatapos ni Tee.
Ang diyabetis, ang pangunahing bahagi ng mga malalang metabolic na sakit, ay hindi lamang nagpapababa sa kalidad ng buhay at lubos na nagpapataas ng mga gastusing medikal, kundi pati na rin sa makabuluhang pagtaas ng mga pagkamatay na may kaugnayan sa sakit. Mario Oclaman //FNS
