THAILAND - Coordination with the Thai Health Promotion Foundation, the Office of the Secretary-General of the House of Representatives are to set up a health promotion centre to improve the physical fitness of parliament officials, parliament police in particular.
An advisor to the House secretary-general, Mr Veeraphan Muksombat, said that parliament police have an important job to perform and, therefore, they must be in good shape, physically and mentally strong to accomplish the job.
Dr Khanat Krutkul, chairman of the network of Thais without big stomach said the physical health of the parliament police showed that 55.6 percent of themare too fat, which is the main cause of non-communicable diseases such as diabetes and heart diseases.
Dr Khanat added that for the well being of police, he hoped that the fitness campaign would make parliament officials more aware of the need to improve their physical health.
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