Health awareness helps to pick up early signs of diseases
KOTA KINABALU: Empowering communities with health-related knowledge will enable them to pick up early signs of diseases and seek help earlier, said the Federation of Sabah Chinese Women Associations president Dr Pamela Yong.
Speaking at the closing of a health talk on varicose veins and heart disease here, she said such talks served to share information with the community.
“By empowering communities with knowledge and broadening health awareness, they may be able to take active steps to pick up on the early signs of diseases and seek help earlier, to reduce the incidence of a disease,” she said at the event at Sky Hotel here on Saturday.
The event was jointly organized by The National Association of Malaysian Life Insurance and Family Takaful Advisors (Namlifa) Sabah branch, Gleneagles Kota Kinabalu Hospital and the Federation of Sabah Chinese Women Associations.
She also hoped that the participants would pass on the information they learned at the health talk to their friends and family.
Meanwhile, Namlifa Sabah branch chairman Phang Jyn Yenn said the health talk would certainly provide the participants with the latest information and knowledge about varicose veins and heart disease.
He added that Namlifa is a professional body representing 14 life insurance company agencies that protect, promote and strengthen the important role of the life insurance industry in Malaysia.
The talk featured vascular and endovascular surgeon Dr Benjamin Leong Dak Keung and interventional cardiologist and physician Dr Ahmad Ashraf Zaini bin Hj Anwar, who are both practising at Gleneagles Kota Kinabalu.
Also present were Gleneagles Kota Kinabalu marketing manager Jacqueline Chin and organizing chairman Kong Tsen Phin.