 view of the issues to you. Nation Beat is now. And welcome to the launch or press re-launch of these moves. You may remember Salosh launched in October, September 2020. Just to give a brief intro, non-communicable communities or NCDs such as diabetes, hypertension and heart disease have been caused of death incident for a decade with socio-economic consequences of individuals and the nation in response to the devastation of these diseases and the main factors such as smoking, clean activity and Caribbean government admitted to the port of Spain declaration in 2007. This declaration was made for the future implementation of these and programs, which would impact the NCDs and the actors. In September 2022, Caribbean moves along with the solution component was launched, since then encouraged and hosted head lifestyle events. NUSHA moves is to continue 2023, today to introduce to you some plans to do so. I host for today, Sant Justin, communications unit of the health, wellness and elderly. We would like to move by bringing on one of the ministers within the internet as the minister of wellness and health affairs, Moses Jabhatis, who will give you an overview of Caribbean moves. Mr. Minister. Thank you very much. Good morning everyone and a very special to Dr. Sir and our team. Thank you very much for being here. As you know, chronic makeable diseases, what NCDs indicated to you, diabetes, hypertension, and he said already it's been the cause of death in Saint Lucia for many years, and it's important for us to keep of the country on NCDs because it goes to cost us lives, two years lost, the active activity number of individuals in Saint Lucia work because of NCDs. In 2018, Caribbean moves campaign was endorsed by Carrikes as a response for action to reduce the use of NCDs and factors. It was hoped that the Caribbean moves initiative was a sectoral tool in routine physical activity, healthy eating habits and appropriate health checks, though initially endorsed in 2020. The Caribbean moves initiative was officially launched in Jamaica on September 14, 2020. Less than a week before the launch of the Caribbean move initiative, Saint Lucia followed the rest of the main countries such as Jamaica with its own launch and you will recall September 9, 2020. We did it in the commemoration of Caribbean wellness day. The moves is a local chapter by the Caribbean moves initiative and it forms part of the ministry's national wellness drive at increasing awareness of communicable diseases, the wellness and age-appropriate physical activity. Encourage everyone to train healthy, young at heart, physically young. We want to encourage everyone to get moving. One of the main components of the initiative is that of the promotion of physical activity. Saint Lucia moves will offer a whole approach to health and wellness, promotion of positive health habits and initiative will include variants and it is envisioned to be an initiative which can be embraced by the Caribbean and private sectors. This move is all Saint Lucia's to be part of the movement. It's important for us to participate in the process when you are at work. What can we do to a public servant so to get up a little more? What can we do to encourage in schools to go to the to the school yard more? What can we do to individuals in the community? Some more and so on. So I congratulate the forward to raise dollars and providing everyone with the important abiding activity. This is important for our people, the people of our ministry but also for us our community because we are not only working because of the disease, blood pressure, we are not only giving the cause, we are giving the demands of the activity because we are not only I should be full of activity. We're firm on self-care. We're powerful on my law. We're co-using bold to make a team of them. We need a text. So we can educate them. I shouldn't be doing that. I shouldn't be obligated to educate them. We tell them of it. But we have to move to co-op. They'll say, it is good. We need to go back to the policy side. We'll find out what they told me. We'll also find out who the minister is. We will look at who the minister is. It's a big issue. Thank you very much. I thank you very much Minister. It's like to on the minister's behalf who could not be with us throughout the conference as of other pressing matters he has to. Now the Ministry of Health wants to lead by example with this campaign. By earlier I did mention the ministry has hosted, encouraged, participated in activities, encouraging a movie. And himself, I've seen him having but I've seen him participate in activities. Dr. Cyr, I've seen you. I'm not sure for my other two. I'm not on social media. Let me bring on another panelist that is Dr. Shana Cyr. He's our senior medical and non-communicable diseases. Dr. Cyr Filbert will start our target audience and the necessity for the campaign. Dr. Cyr? Thank you Mr. Justin. Good morning Senu. So we're relaunching Senu Shamos. This morning speak about the effect of Senu Shamos. Come on, so we're hoping that you will stay tuned. You're asking yourselves maybe why? Let me tell you. It is Valentine's Day. Day when we celebrate love. We are here today to encourage all solutions to love their bodies. And to move out of the Senu Shamos initiatives. To let all solutions know. We launched Senu Shamos in September 2022. Precisely because we're relevant it is for all of us to make action against NCDs and their activities. As you have mentioned, the aim of Senu Shamos is to encourage solutions to be politically active and to live healthier lives. Before we continue, we have to place things in context. The ministry did not come up with this just because this is relevant. And I want to share some very concerning things with us as a solution. Living hair or over the years, health has actually carried out surveys. Some of which our steps, behavioral response and the global school survey. The most recent step survey was done in 2020. A representative sample of over 3,000. In fact over 3,000 aged 18 to 39. They were interned and they were fit. The results I wish to share with you provide context. And I hope that you take note of that they are very important. 65% of the population were overweight or obese. 65% of the persons aged 69. Over 80% of the males were obese. And 76.8% of the females. Most 80% of the females aged 18 to 69. A representative sample of solutions over obese. 2020 a little bit. Actually almost half of the females, 46.1%, were actually obese. And what do I mean by body mass index? 40 or above kilograms per meter square. While the men were 20.6%. 20.6% of the males were actually obese. That for us as a ministry of health, knowing the implications over obese is very concerning. Additionally, for this sample of solutions, the percentage of persons with raised blood who had not previously diagnosed with high blood pressure was 30.3%. Almost 40% of persons aged 18 to 69. And when we break down the figures, we find that 52.8% of the males were actually, they had high blood pressure was raised and they had no previous diagnosis of high blood pressure. She's 6% of the females. Only 6% of the females, possibly the females tend to go to health center and their doctors more. So they probably wouldn't. The step survey also had high levels of what we call NCD risk factors. So NCDs are noncommunicable diseases, cancer, diabetes, heart disease. What we call major risk factors could make it more likely that you're going to get it. So we looked at the risk among that sample of Senua. And the percentage of the three or more risk factors for developing those diseases that I just spoke about. So in terms of risk factors, we had current data, persons who smoke daily, persons who have fruits and vegetables, who do enough exercise, who are overweight or obese. And those with raised blood, I would have mentioned previously, that was 3.4% of the supervision. Breaking it down, 1.3% of the males and 38.7% of the females. So these persons are very likely to get those diseases, which has premature mortality and burdens to the fat and cause lose income. Solution of physical activity, but as we've mentioned, it's not just about physical activity, because we understand that while physical activity is important, there are other aspects to go hand in hand with physical activity. Physical inactivity is a major risk factor for non-compatible diseases that has been established. In our step that was done in 2023, the percentage of persons who didn't engage in sufficient physical activity was 17.1%. And we're looking at 150 minutes of moderate intensity activity, which would include brisk walking, dancing, hiking, your bike at the border, 17.1% of persons did not do that. The percentage of persons not engaged in activities like running, swimming, heavy hard work, yard work, or faster biking was actually 65.1% for the adults, aged 18 to 69. One would say, okay, well, as physical activity should be, perhaps in Canada. Unfortunately, our statistics show that our children are not as active as they should be. So in 2018, global school health were children, well, adolescents, from the secondary schools were aged 13 to 17. 21.2% of the students admitted to being active for an hour a day. Only 21.2%. That leaves us with the 0.8% of being physically active. Students admitted to spending at least three hours at school, not doing homework, outside of homework hours. I was after school sitting while on the CV or engaging in video games. Now, before we know what we had locked up, the level of activity dropped because it had to be done, indoors, et cetera. So we know, we can assume that the figure was than they were before. So if before they were concerning, they're concerning now. The aim of Saint Lucia moves is to improve activity among people more. Like minister said, public practices at schools, our churches are places among the young and among the young. We want to improve health. We want to increase work, we want to encourage healthy that to also improve care through health education and screening. Saint Lucia is about every solution. We have to make a difference. We cannot like this. Thank you. Some of these numbers are surprising. Especially with all the hills and valleys, we think good choice but to be active. So these are very surprising numbers and I'm hoping if you're watching taking note of these numbers, very important, very important. Before we move on next panelist, we would like to also to the relaunch Lucia moves Camille Song. Song for the first time yesterday. So let's hope it has worked on you and maybe DJs to play and read and effects get people moving more. Let's take a listen and look the solution campaign song. This message is brought to you by the ministry encouraging all inclusion to take good care of your mental emotional and physical health. At least for this one I hope and our plan is to get you moving some more as we continue with the solution to bring on our to bring another panelist to you about more components of the 2023 plans to move. I would like to introduce Isaac Louis who is a district minister with the ministry of Dr. Louis I would also like to encourage you to in that video that we're going to redo that video more faces. That's the good morning. Good morning. I'm not into but I'm active. As our minister mentioned as Dr. Sir has mentioned inclusion is a well we're trying to do more physical activity yes and we will speak about the benefits of but it is a well because when as a doctor you see even though the person comes a headache you have to not just the headache so Senusia moves with that to wellness holistic so we will partnering with the schools ministries the ministry of education ministries because we've partnered with the for the battle relay we will be partnering with other public sectors as well we will be looking to go places to get them educated wellness on positivity on good I respect sleep if you want to know how many hours of the treadmill could go and take a nap you burn calories as well so we need to appreciate the aspect of wellness and wellness with Senusia moves we look at our population being healthy so the ability to have and still because it is different from being well being healthy to deal with it surpasses just the physical it is how you deal with the respect for self which is why today February we have chosen to love your body and have to learn to love our body and other people's bodies as well so through Senusia just to give you a little of what we would like for February we are looking at the love your body campaign a lovely video that you just saw for the first time to send surprise it is not the video that we are looking at Senusia moves we like the song the song is fantastic and we know Senusia is a creative so for Senusia moves we are going to launch a video campaign so all of our people are on social media not like me but those who are on social media encourage you to gang up with your friend do a choreographed dance capture your mother sweeping you can do your gardening and have your friends while you are doing your gardening doing a video to the Senusia moves while you are in the supermarket picking up fruits and vegetables you head out in the supermarket and you do a little jig you send to the Ministry of Health the Ministry of Health has a Facebook page videos in we also have the email address that you could send to Mr Justin will share those videos will be compiled viewed by our communications a video of Senusia moving will be our Senusia moves jingle now we are not talking to people who are on our lovely mass of it is also expressions in the diaspora and we encourage people to go on social media pages you can ask your song our jingle some coverage let people learn about what we are doing for March we are doing walk to health and this is just listening doing other things but for mental awareness and what you do for your mental health all you need to do is go out some nice fresh air a little water in it and everything is much better we want people to partner up and the reason why we are partnering up is I could say I want 1000 steps a day but if I have to tell Dr. that I did I am a little more motivated because I have somebody to report so you partner up with somebody and the two of you 10000 steps per day also needs to be sent into the minutes guess what for Caribbean Wednesday they say we are giving people who participate and help get Senusia moving April we will be now to exercise or your memory will get like Nansal having Alzheimer's from a very young age so for the month of April we will dance I don't know how I will be going out into the and we will be extending the dance company people who do salsa groups the name of the what is the name help me the children who dance Mr. George Barry George's group Silver Shadows right so that's why we do the Silver Shadow Dancers to approach these sorts of groups and we are going to also encourage schools and different community groups to have dance of April by the April we will hopefully in that official video you will be sending your clips in you will see yourself in our video at the end of April and May is Measure Month this cast will tell us more about Measure Month measure your blood sugar check know what your measure is June we focus on the dance wellness so throughout and working up to Caribbean this year we have a lot of it is not just places but also schools and for the communities if we focus a little on the at the minute because we do what I say I do so we Measure Month we have decided that we are going to settle and so at the ministry yesterday actually we spent our water Monday the dental clinic actually shed a lot it was beautiful and Monday is water Monday it is meditation Tuesday for your mental health every Wednesday, fitness Wednesday tomorrow rounders at the beach other business partners and to take on those sorts of activities Thursday we will look at vegetable consumption and Friday will be fruit fried so these are the sorts of activities Ministry of Health will be undertaking a lot of educational activities looking at benefits of exercise so the benefits of exercise would be I won't be able to remember all looking at increasing your body to actually respond in the blood and so it lowers your HBA which is one of the numbers that you will learn so they through know your number it helps your to blood pressure so it helps control pressure as well exercise it helps preserve your no the health of your blood improved through exercise it means everything that needs blood to work better exercise including a module right exercise also reduces your chances of develop city related cancers because when you exercise the chemical secret actually helps inflammation exercise so people like me that are going from already we need to exercise to help stabilize our yes it's necessary exercise is all and when I say exercise I need to apologize here I mean physically if you can't and move because you cannot do it and there are certain people who doing what you physically it helps so you do stretches you pointed to tiptoes exercises you do to get moving as long as blood to flow more oxygen to develop better you get the benefits of physical there was from the American Diabetes Diabetes Association much of last year where three minutes of physical activity every hour had much benefit to people Diabetes Diabetes and the as doing an hour and 53 times a week so physical activity that's gardening cleaning washing the dishes while you watch get up to go drink your water in between for each other just physical activity so some things that Saint Richard moves on to get people to appreciate how much the small change for us um I'm excited and I hope you're excited too because I mean it we're actually trying to get to partner with the businesses that already we have history of having the soca we all see there's a day we're trying to get more places to participate workplace wellness and we want people at their homes to do more physically active and to do the stairs instead of the elevator those sort of decisions that have incredible impact on their life thank you Dr. Louisie very creative just like the stress at the minute participating as well we're leading by example um I have been forced into rounders they're really going to test my gonna test tomorrow I do well for my team looks like we have a schedule coming up a lot of activities here every month we have something and actually the following the moves here we have some activities schools I didn't want to but we need to ensure that we all of the components of the which would be the public awareness that we spoke the corporate we have outreach programs NGOs, faith based organizations the uniform and then the school based programs we're looking to have for this I'm not giving too much detail but we have a competition for the school age and for St. Louisian moves so we will let you know about St. Louisian wellness 23 not too much excitement doctor Louisian let's uh down that's the easy that's the easy right now so our final panelist this morning is nurse Julieta Patrick Cassius principal nursing officer important collaborations ministry will be undertaking under the 23 campaign thank you and good morning good morning to my team and of course that excitement Isaac has just robbed the fund more so all of the campaign for St. Louisian moves I want to know your numbers as I mentioned about creativeness and also the health and asset knowing your numbers we want to know the information about how healthy how to promote but the component is knowing your numbers and knowing your numbers mean there are some markers we indicate our health status so we have our cholesterol level what our cholesterol level is we do know what our blood measurement is do we know what our blood do we know what our conference measurement we have persons who may not be we have a lot of adipose tissue we know when we get older it's part of our this part of work and again how do we maintain our weight so our body index again is another critical our visceral fat so these are critical indicators I mean our health status so when we say know your numbers do you know what your levels are do you know what your levels are do you know what your levels are and not just but do you know what it is obviously do you know what your visceral fat level or do you know what your body mass index we know it's really big but is it are we doing weight in accordance with it because that is what determines our health index as I mentioned earlier we think that we are not fat or not big but what the visceral fat around our body is that we may not likely see eyes so these are very very critical and we lead what we have mentioned cardiovascular disease so knowing your numbers is extremely important and you can go through screening you can only know your numbers if you get screened you have blood pressure checked you have blood sugar need to be checked visceral level need to be checked other markers that are very important for ancient earlier why is this important for us to know we can only what is outside of the outside of the normal if we do our measure we know what our number is so if we know what is we need to know okay how do we continue maintaining that's well right to health it is abnormal it is that we need to be better control and to maintain that once we get there because once we okay our blood sugar is right now and we feel hey I do not have the pressure anymore but we are able to continue doing all the necessary to be able to ensure that it remains control and that things do not get control and then now develop the various so knowing your numbers is important solution and we need to encourage person to know their and so the ministry of health initiative will be called as you mentioned as Dr. mentioned before public private to be able to go and do the necessary screenings of the population as possible our aim is to screen the entire we know it's going to be take time at least we need to start somewhere had a very good relationship some of our workplaces will have the health days health months do the screening to continue that but we have some other agencies that we would like to work with would like them to come on board for us to be able to go and necessary screenings now some of us would not want to know what we have to know you know it's not know and this is a fear and solutions but get what we are able to detect the fund that is the basis for early identification we are able to correct it sooner so it does not it does not to a place where it's to the family it's to the country you know and it can be an uncomfortable so we run to go you need to only if you know what you are we are able to know that you need to do or to be able to keep under control so we'll be getting with all of our agencies and we'll be doing community we know not everybody come so we will go in pockets within the communities be going out there and doing screenings because everyone to know what is my number is my number what is my color is it good is it not so good is it not at a place to be I need to get it at this place to be controlled but I am okay we are walking around and okay we believe that but are we again not unless we get screened we will not know how our numbers are very important said Lucia your number and you know in your number doing your screenings doing your necessary checks so it tells you where you wise again your health so Saint Lucia all for us we'll be coming to we'll be coming to shopping malls we'll be coming to your homes that nationwide so everybody children adults all of us will get at some point to your numbers so you need to so you can know how thank you thank you and I think plenty reasons why you love your body today just stress on that aspect loving your body Saint Lucia 2023 is all about loving your body in today Valentine's Day if you love somebody put your body first so a number of announcements today one of the video campaign two ladies and gentlemen remember if you want to take part you want to make an exciting video make that video go viral on social media that's right so you saw a lot of faces from the ministry we want that to be public Lucia the diaspora the diaspora we allow in whining in that video anyway once you make so just to throw back to our anything you want to add there before we Saint Lucia what we intend on the ministry as the NCD committee is that we to move forward together our independent statement says Saint Lucia moves forward like our destiny so working on together as a nation as a region to shape our destiny within our health stop your conversation good morning I'm happy to be but that's the whole idea a question I say yes Monika I say I always I run in English to encourage people at different levels I heard somebody in the churches and the schools but I'm reading about the different age groups the problem ministry of health and the the hospitals within the NCDs situation so you need to have a lot incentives so that you can make a big decision what we want to do what we want to do so I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm innovations, especially in the field of education, and in the field of science, apart from the innovations that are being done, the innovations that are being built. Check the call you're going to move. Please pass a one hour leg. OK? So now it's a safety amela. Lot of guys say, sir, let's have seen us under lecola. You can buy different shots for safety amela. I've made common entrance. Then I'll say, I'm going to do this. I've made injection. You can buy a yo-yo. You can just screen safety. They'll screen sit here, my life, you know, you want with you to pay your equity and my do it kind of a problem. Look, I'm going to say, Mama and Papa, um, educate them, differ me, uh, so I don't need to sit here, my son. So look, I'm going to catch it, uh, it's a large seminar, it's a seminar, it's working. The program, uh the health center, uh, Mass have you can change the program? Pedigress, Pedigress? Um, um, clearly, a lot, a lot of programs for us, after you After you're in the health center, at the committee, at the service, you're going to be able to do a lot of exercise. You can do that. Since we have a lot of people here, we have a lot of gym to do exercise, to participate in the most. All the things we do, all the physical things, we will be able to play the game. We can play. We can have a lot of fun here. We could do lots of fun here. We can have fun here. If you do all these things, you're going to be able to place your body and play with it. So all of these things, you should have a great target, is certainly Moon so video video video international a lot of Caribbean wellness day prize by school participation for different products for you for private companies for you for the Moon it's a good thing for you for you for private companies for the Moon it's a good thing for you for the for the for the for the for the for the for the for the for the so for the you from in lot incentive I'm just going to add, once I'm incentive the same body, I love the body, so please go and incentive the same family that is affected by what is necessary to help you. As we're talking about physical Extension, we're talking about Exercise and E-Glyceria. Well, if you don't have a lot of stress you can also exercise. You also have muscle pain as we're talking about the same body. So please go and incentive the same family that is affected by what is necessary to help you. It's a big one in Sentigla. Ex-summer metal, it's a sick old lady. Lot of viola says it's a monial habitat, no M.E.C. goodbye. So they've been on the competition since the last century, they've got a new shamos, Lana Shaikin, G.R.C. business player, like any competition, Kikalty, Miss Place Cafe, Mamiyo, and Fair Exercise. Come over here, Miss Cafe, Mamiyo, and Fair Screamers there, okay? Come over here, Kikalty, Nukomini, Spice, Senusha, Musse, Pask, Tutomune, Just, Just La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, Their business place. Me. Their business place life. for March and March April. I'm not going to put up a business place. I'm just going to say numbers. I'm not going to put up a business place. I'm going to say numbers. I'm not going to put up a business place. I'm going to say, I'm going to say insentive. All right? I will say this one in English, it's win-win. It's win-win. Win-win-win. It's win-win. It's win-win. So, Gasper, thank you for that. But before we get to the ladies, I'd like you all to measure Gasper. We will measure Gasper. Measure. Measure his waist. His waist area. And campaign, we will measure him again. Again. Maybe participating. Gasper, right? Yeah. Round us tomorrow, Gasper. Yeah. Yes. We invite in the media house to participate as well. Definitely, yes. Calling on the media houses to take part in this. Not just show. Not to cover. Not just air juggles. One of them participating. That's right. A lot of fit people in the media. Other than I'm not there anymore. There are others in the media. So, we like to in the media house as well to participate. Ladies and gentlemen. Look out for more. We will be having more announcements. The media health Facebook page. Ministry of Health. And we'll be having announcements on what we announced. So, keeping that in mind. The video competition will look like that. I say very excited when you all spoke about it. We're looking forward to that video competition. That's the Ministry of Health. We're on phase. This is where we come to the end of the press release. And Lucia moves to encourage you to love your body. I've been your host. Don't stay inside. This message is brought to you by the Ministry of Encouraging All Inclusion. To take good care of your spirits, your emotions, and to set you straight. Let's move. Now, the discussion. An important view of the issues of you. Nation Beat. Now.