Ooredoo launches Health Month for employees

Ooredoo has launched its annual Health Month of activities for employees, as the company celebrates International World Health Day on 7 April.

Health Month is part of the company’s social responsibility strategy to encourage a healthy lifestyle for all of Qatar, and activities for employees will include the distribution of healthy snacks, free weight check-ups, Body Mass Index(BMI) screening sessions, blood pressure readings, blood sugar tests, free dental check-ups, medical check-ups, eye check-ups and more. Fatima Sultan Al Kuwari, Director, Community & Public Relations, Ooredoo said: “Encouraging people to live healthier lifestyles is a key part of Ooredoo’s Corporate Social Responsibility strategy, and we extend that approach to our employees with our annual Health Month. Along with healthy food and medical check-ups, we aim to educate our employees on the benefits of better diet and fitness.”

As well as internal activities, Ooredoo will be encouraging customers to educate themselves through their social media pages on World Health Day. World Health Day is a global health awareness day celebrated every year on 7 April, under the sponsorship of the World Health Organisation (WHO). This year, the World Health Organisation has dedicated the day to highlight the epidemic rapidly increasing in many countries – diabetes.

According to the International Diabetes Federation, 415 million people have diabetes in the world and more than 35.4 million people in the MENA Region. In Qatar alone there were an estimated 239,100 cases of diabetes in 2015. Ooredoo sponsors and supports a host of events and programmes aimed to promote healthy living, education and community across Qatar, including building and operating the Fahad Bin Jassim Kidney Centre to support kidney patients in Qatar and the Ooredoo Cancer Awareness Centre.

For more information on Ooredoo’s CSR initiatives, visit www.ooredoo.qa.