BY MICHAEL EBOH
LiveWell Initiative, LWI, a Non-Governmental Organisation, has expressed its readiness to partner and encourage financial institutions and other blue chip companies in Nigeria to increase their social sector investment and support for the health sector.
Mrs. Bisi Bright, First Vice Chairman/Chief Executive, LWI, who said this at its Grand Health Bazaar, GHB 2012, in Lagos, also said it is committed to promoting worklife balance, workplace wellness, healthy living and health consciousness among Nigerians.
She disclosed that it plans to partner with stakeholders in key sectors of the Nigerian economy to increase health awareness and promote access to healthcare in the country.
An example of its commitment to healthcare development, she noted, is its Grand Health Bazaar GHB 2012, where it partnered the United States Consulate General, Skye Bank Plc, Pfizer Specialities, Central Bank of Nigeria, West African Health Organisation WAHO, Symbion Power, GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Plc, UTC Nigeria Plc, Nestle Plc, Stanbic IBTC Bank Plc and May & Baker Nigeria Plc and the Lagos State Government among others.
Bright explained that LWI will empower the executives of these organizations by ensuring that they take steps towards attaining an equilibrium between work and life, by catering for their health and wellbeing. “What is needed is not only health insurance policy but also quality attention to their health’” she noted.
Continuing, she stated, “We discovered long ago that people generally indulge in unhealthy habits and they do nothing much about their health until there is an exigency or emergency.
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