OYDC hosts 2018 national health week - OYDC Zambia

07 May

OYDC hosts 2018 national health week

By Noah Silomba Lifestyle, News, Sport 0 Comments

President Edgar Lungu tours health stands during the 2017 National Health Week held at OYDC.

The Olympic Youth Development Centre (OYDC) will be hive of sport and health activities from 7 to 12 May, 2018.

The 2018 National Health Week organised by the Ministry of Health (MOH) and the Ministry of Youth, Sport and Child Development (MYSCD) which starts today will be commemorated, under the theme “Health For All, Leaving No One Behind”.

The Republican President, His Excellency, Mr. Edgar Chagwa Lungu is expected to officially launch the National Health Week on Tuesday 8 May, 2018 at OYDC where he shall lead participants in a number of health and sport activities.

Members of the public are invited to come to OYDC and participate in a number of health and sport activities lined up for the week. The Ministry of Health and other health partners have mounted mobile clinics at the OYDC where people will be screened.

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Noah Silomba

Noah Silomba is a Zambian-born Lusaka-based professional journalist with many years of experience in media, sport & corporate communication, digital & social media marketing and web management. Ranked 5th in Africa for the 2021 AIPS Sport Media Awards in Photography Sports Action and is a two times media awards nominee (photography sports action & best writing colour piece) categories for the years 2020 and 2021 under the International Sports Press Association (AIPS) Lausanne, Switzerland. In 2024 Silomba was certified as the finalist for the sixth edition of the Run for Art photography contest in the category; Sport and urban environment by the Fondazione Giulio Onesti in Rome, Italy. He is also part of Cohort A for 2022 Africa Media Agency (AMA) Academy training in digital media and marketing.

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