๐๐๐ ๐๐ผ๐ป๐๐ถ๐ป๐๐ฒ๐ ๐๐ผ ๐ฃ๐ฟ๐ผ๐บ๐ผ๐๐ฒ ๐๐ผ๐ผ๐ฑ ๐๐ฒ๐ฎ๐น๐๐ต; ๐๐ฒ๐น๐ฒ๐ฏ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐๐ฒ๐ ๐๐๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป ๐๐๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ป๐ฒ๐๐ ๐ ๐ผ๐ป๐๐ต
By: Venus F. Avecilla, GPC โ BDH | Photos By: GPC-BDH | Date: May 19, 2022
Bacnotan District Hospital (BDH), under the leadership of Chief of Hospital Dr. Zenserly D. Pagaduan, remains committed in promoting health as everyoneโs most valuable asset as manifested by the various lectures being conducted to patients and watchers in the hospital.
In celebration of the Hypertension Awareness Month, Miss Maureen J. Buccat, Nurse I of BDH, educated patients and their watchers about the risk of hypertension. She enumerated the causes and risk factors affecting the disease such as , increasing age (above 40 years old), smoking , obesity, chronic stress, heavy alcohol consumption, high cholesterol level, family history, and physical inactive.
With the tagline, โKalusugan ay Alagaan, Puso ay Ingatan,โ she encouraged everyone to lower down consumption of sweet and fatty foods, and choose green leafy vegetables instead. She added that good exercise and healthy lifestyle are some ways to have a healthy heart.
Hypertension is considered as the number one contributing risk factor for global death which causes strokes, heart attacks and other cardiovascular diseases. Oftentimes, hypertension shows no symptoms but some people may develop headache, dizziness, eye damage with progressive vision loss, leg pain, kidney failure, and aneurysm.
In closing, Miss Buccat encouraged everyone to have a regular check up with a health care provider and reminded everyone to always take prescribed medicines on time, reduce stress, and enjoy life more.
