Cardiovascular Disorders are Caused by Excess Fat — Don
The Dean of the School of Health Technology at the Federal University of Technology, Owerri, Imo state, Prof. Evangeline Oparaocha, has said that cardiovascular disorders are caused by excess fat in the body.
Oparaocha said this during the opening ceremony of the 3rd International Congress on Health Science and Technology, held on the main campus of the univesity on Monday, themed, ‘Innovative Technologies for Disease Prevention and Wellness Promotion.”
Warning that the Nigeria of every citizen’s dream would be a fluke in the absence of conscious efforts by experts and scholars to address current issues of disease prevention and wellness promotion, she said, “The spread of diseases along the whole spectrum of life, with devastating effect, has become so endemic to the extent of becoming a threat to our collective existence.
“Often, this is evident in the lack of valuable information on technology and the lifestyle modification required to change the situation. It is the desire of this year’s congress to fill that gap by creating a synergy between technology and information”.
Oparaocha contended that the congress theme was apt, following the hindsight of the ravaging onslaught of diseases, such as malaria, Type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, hypertension, stroke, obesity, Ebola, monkey pus, Lassa fever, cancers, kidney and liver diseases, among others.
“Against this background, the 3rd International Congress serves to provide the platform to critically examine, evaluate and proffer solutions to discovering local initiative approaches to address the fundamental health problems of a developing country like ours”.
“The burden of disease outbreak and how to find appropriate health technologies that will help to enhance disease prevention and promote wellness has become a disturbing aspect with people living in this part of the globe,” she added.
The dean described cleanliness as one of the simplest cost-effective prevention techniques, adding that there was the dire need to revive it by putting modern ideas that would reduce the burden of many infectious and contagious diseases.
She thanked the Vice-Chancellor of the university, Prof Francis Eze, for approving the congress and assisting the School to ensure that it was held.
In his speech, the Chairman of the Local Organising Committee of the congress, Dr. Jervas Ezekiel, stated that the congress would afford their recent discoveries in disease prevention and wellness promotion in line with sub-themes, such as medical information, innovative technologies in cancer detection and prevention, application of genetics and tissue engineering in disease, among others.
He commended the keynote and guest speakers, Prof. Hakeem Fawehinmi and Dr Emmanuel Okara, respectively, and other resource persons for the congress.
By: Gibson Achonu, Owerri
The Punch News
