City Reporter
The Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry in collaboration with Maroof International Hospital organized an awareness seminar on cardiovascular diseases to celebrate World Heart Day.
Addressing the seminar, Sardar Yasir Ilyas Khan, President ICCI said that 30% to 40% deaths in Pakistan were occurring due to cardiovascular diseases (CVD) while 12 Pakistanis were dying every hour from CVD.
It showed that heart diseases have become a leading cause of deaths in Pakistan and stressed that maximum awareness should be created regularly in society to save people from these deadly diseases.
He highlighted stress, use of fats, inactive lifestyle as major causes of CVD and emphasized that the business community and citizens should adopt regular walk or exercise to avoid heart diseases.
He said that World Heart Day is a perfect platform for the people to unite in the fight against CVD and reduce the global disease burden.
He said that the business community normally leads a busy life, but they should spare time for regular walk or exercise to remain fit as they can promote their businesses only with a healthy life.
