“Please challenge your target number of 10,000 steps per day,” said Dr Kidong Park WHO Representative in Việt Nam at the event. “Today marks a very meaningful beginning of two key activities of the Healthy Việt Nam Programme - know your numbers and challenge your target numbers. “I would like to call on all Vietnamese to actively support and participate in the Healthy Việt Nam Programme,” said Dr Park. At the event, Health Minister Nguyễn Thị Kim Tiến said Việt Nam faced many challenges taking care of people’s health. “77 per cent of Vietnamese people misunderstood about high blood pressure and its risks and more than 70 per cent people do not know how to early detect and prevent high blood pressure.

Source: Viet Nam News April 07, 2019 16:07 UTC