Healthcare professionals should be good role models

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KOTA KINABALU: Healthcare professionals such as doctors, nurses and pharmacists should be good role models in the ‘front-line’ to champion the cause of a healthy lifestyle.

Health Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai said they should assist the ministry to motivate the people to change their eating disorder to lead a more active life.

He said that would enable all Malaysians to begin taking the ‘1,000-mile journey’ to a healthy life,” he said when closing the Wellness Journey Conference and Exhibition organised by the Sabah Women Entrepreneurs and Professionals at the Sabah Trade Centre, Likas near here yesterday.

His speech was read by Assistant Minister at the Chief Minister’s Department, Datuk Edward Khoo.

Liow said the National Health and Morbidity Survey study conducted last year, showed that one in five adults in Malaysia was afflicted with diabetes. — Bernama