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H.E. Professor Mya Oo, Deputy Minister,
delivering the opening speech at the World Diabetes Day 2009 commemoration
ceremony in Nay Pyi Taw.
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H.E. Professor Mya Oo, Deputy Minister,
and guests viewed the mini-exhibition and the photographic documentation at
the World Diabetes Day 2009 commemoration ceremony.
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The commemoration ceremony of World Diabetes Day 2009 was
held at the Ministry of Health in Nay Pyi Taw at
0900 hours on 14 November 2009. The inaugural speech was delivered by H.E.
Professor Mya Oo, Deputy Minister, Ministry of
Health. It was attended by Director Generals under the Ministry of Health and
representatives from MMCWA and MWAF.
H.E. Professor Mya Oo, Deputy Minister, viewed the
mini-exhibition and the photographic documentation on previous World Diabetes
Day activities.
World Diabetes Day is the primary global awareness
campaign for diabetes. World Diabetes day raises awareness of diabetes-its escalating rates around the world and how to prevent
illness in most cases.
In 2007, World Diabetes Day became an official United
Nations World Day, following the UN World Diabetes Day resolution 61/255 in
December 2006.
The second part of the commemoration ceremony for World
Diabetes Day were talks on World Diabetes Day by :
Dr Si Si Tun, Associate
Professor, 1000 bedded Nay-Pyi-Taw General
Hospital on “World
Diabetes Day”
Dr Ko Ko, Lecturer/Consultant
Physician, North Okklapa General Hospital, Yangon
on “Understand Diabetes-Facts and knowledge”
Professor Tint Swe Latt, Project Manager, Diabetes Project on “prevention of
Diabetes Mellitus”
During the talks, IEC materials which includes pamphlets
and booklets on World Diabetes Day, T shirts, hand bags, key chains, towels
and ball pens with World Diabetes Day logo was distributed to the audience.
As the last agenda, blood testing of glucose, measuring
blood pressure, body weight, waist circumference and BMI was done to all
those interested persons from the audience.
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