By Sheila
Covarrubias
ZAMBOANGA
CITY,
Apr. 29, (PIA) - The City Health Office (CHO) recently launched “Nutrition on
Wheels”, an outreach program intended to empower communities through proper
nutrition.
The program is another innovation adopted
by the CHO headed by Dr. Rodel Agbulos to advance its vision of “Un Ciudad sin
Enfermedad”.
Mayor Celso Lobregat together with
Councilors Nonong Guingona, Rudy Lim and Myra Paz Abubakar and Dr. Agbulos and
staff of the CHO’s Nutrition Division spearheaded the launching of the program
highlighted by a feeding program for young children at the CHO compound in
Pettit Barracks, April 26.
Dr. Agbulos said the CHO’s mobile van will
be used to visit rural areas to conduct feeding programs and information
campaigns on good nutrition for people of all ages.
He stressed the program is primarily aimed
to eliminate malnutrition in the city. At least 10 barangays have been
identified as top 10 in malnutrition problem with barangay Pasobolong as number
one in the list.
“The Nutrition Division of the CHO will
conduct feeding programs, information drives and check on the nutrition problem
in each of the city’s barangays through the use of the mobile van”, Dr. Agbulos
said.
The city government through the CHO has
been cited for its aggressive nutrition strategies for several years now.
Agbulos stressed that good nutrition is not
the intake of costly foods or cuisine but the proper preparation of food and
maintaining a healthy lifestyle. (JPA/SC/CIO/PIA
9-ZBST)
