14th May 2018 22:44:37 Hours
“Health is Wealth”, people in exciting society are suffering number of various health issues because of adverse health habits and sedentary life styles. As Guardians of the Nation (Rata Rakina Jathiya), Army has to be healthiest in both physical and mental aspects. In that context, the Healthy Army Healthy Nation awareness program was successfully conducted by Security Force Headquarters (Wanni) on 11 May 2018 at the Wanni Headquarters premises.
The program was basically conducted to be made aware of Officers and Other Ranks on Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD), the harmful impacts of drug addiction, unhealthy foods and the way of spending a healthy life.
48 Officers and 392 Other Ranks representing all under command formations to Security Force Headquarters (Wanni) participated in this timely valuable program, organized with the supervision and guidance of the Commander Security Force (Wanni) Major General Kumudu Perera RWP RSP USP ndu.
A team of lecturers comprised of the Physician, Brigadier A S M Wijewardhana USP, Obstetrician & Gynecologist (VOG), Colonel D C J Wickramaarachchi, Consultant Psychiatrist, Dr. Ravimal Galappaththi, Physician Dr. K G N U Jayasinghe and a team of professional psychologists of Sri Lanka Army Directorate of Psychology conducted an invaluable lecture on NCD, healthy foods, good health habits, drug addictions and its preventions
.Principal Staff Officers of the Wanni Headquarters, Senior Officers, Officers along with large number of Other Ranks participated in this awareness program.
