A former Chief Executive Officer of the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, Dr. Felix Anyah, has advised the public to desist from lifestyles that impede a healthy wellbeing. He has outlined some measures that can be adopted to ensure certain ailments are dealt with rather than allowing them to become a burden.
The CEO of the Holy Trinity Spa, speaking at the Annual Presidential Luncheon of The Institute of Chartered Accountants, Ghana (ICAG) Thursday, September, 28, 2023, pointed out that how mankind treats the planet gravely contributes to how healthy or otherwise the lives of the people can be, highlighting on some illnesses that do not show symptoms until they have developed to stages where nothing could be done about them.
Dr. Anyah was speaking on the topic, “our planet, our health, our wellbeing”.
“Respectfully, about 70% of us in this luncheon have what is now termed “lifestyle ill-health. Hypertension, stress, chronic fatigue, difficulty in having quality sleep, overweight, ulcer, panic attacks, neck and back aches, arthritis, depression and many types of cancers are the major ill-health due to our lifestyle.
“The challenge with this lifestyle ill-health is that most of them do not have symptoms until is advanced or too late. Hypertension is typically referred to as a silent killer. The reference “oh I saw him yesterday, goon so soon”, refer mostly to these lifestyle ailments,” he stated.
He further counseled that, “we have our planet, our health, our well-being in our hands; what we do with them is our responsibility; we choose to float together or we sink as one people in our planet called earth. The choice is ours-globally.”
Find the full speech he delivered at the luncheon here.
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