MANILA, Philippines — The Valenzuela City government yesterday launched a fitness program for field personnel, mostly assigned in traffic enforcement and road clearing works.
City hall said 56 out of 324 employees from the public safety division, traffic management office, city transportation office, sidewalk clearing operations group, anti-squatting task force, waste management office, flood control unit, clean and green division as well as motorpool unit were found to be overweight or obese during an assessment last month.
The city health office discovered that obesity, diabetes and hypertension were the common diagnoses among the field personnel.
The program, dubbed “Health Check – Belly Good!,” aims to ensure that the city’s field personnel are aware of the risks brought by these diseases.
City health officer Marthony Basco said the overweight field employees underwent counseling.
“Their weight would be monitored regularly until September, in time for the Obesity Awareness Week,” Basco said.