Santo Domingo.- In the María Trinidad Sánchez province, 75.5% of its population suffers from obesity and of every 100 inhabitants, 36.6 percent is hypertensive (most are unaware of their condition), while 11.6 are diabetic, according to what was revealed this Friday the Minister of Health, Daniel Rivera.
The official urged the population to change their eating habits to reverse these figures.
Leading the “Health Route: change your lifestyle” program, the doctor stressed that the intervention that has been carried out throughout the national territory is a technical strategy that is being used with the idea of making many people change. his life style.
“Prevention is paramount to face health, «The Health Route has a clear vision, being an activity motivated by the data obtained in the detection operations of arterial hypertension (HTN), diabetes and obesity, in which high results of incidence in these diseases in the various provinces, “said Rivera.
The activity was carried out this Friday and will continue this Saturday 25, with the aim of inducing healthy lifestyle habits in the people of this demarcation.
