A nurse checks Dr Al-Jaidah’s blood pressure during an event

QP’s medical services department has marked World Hypertension Day under the patronage of the Minister of Energy and Industry and Qatar Petroleum chairman and managing director HE Dr Mohamed bin Saleh al-Sada.
The occasion, which was organised under the guidance of administration director Ahmad Ali Abdulla al-Mawlawi and QP medical services manager Dr Mahmood Abdul Rahman al-Jaidah, included a range of activities to raise awareness about high blood pressure and to educate QP employees on what they could do to effectively manage the problem.
“Marking World Hypertension Day is part of the full calendar of health promotion programmes that we regularly conduct throughout the year to safeguard the health of our employees and their families. We are confident that the resulting awareness on hypertension and its health effects would go a long way in our continued efforts to address this preventable disease,” Dr al-Jaidah said.
First launched in 2005, World Hypertension Day is an initiative of the World Hypertension League (WHL), a Canada-based organisation founded in 1984.
The WHL is currently made up of 95 member organisations, consisting mainly of hypertension societies from all over the world.
For this year’s celebration of World Hypertension Day, the WHL had selected the theme, “Healthy Lifestyle – Healthy Blood Pressure” to highlight the importance of good health habits in preventing or controlling the
disease.
Among other activities organised during the event was a hypertension screening programme at the corporation’s Centre for Health and Wellness along C-Ring Road.
A large number of QP personnel who were based in Doha participated in the programme and they also attended the health awareness presentations and counselling sessions conducted by the corporation’s medical doctors, pharmacists and dieticians.
In the run-up to this year’s World Hypertension Day, the department conducted an intensive information campaign not only to announce the event but also to provide important information about high blood pressure to all QP employees.