KUWAIT: Public Authority for Sport (PAS) Director General Yousuf Abdullah Al-Baidan received a delegation from the National Campaign for Cancer Awareness (CAN) that consisted of members from the Board and Executive Committee Dr Hussa Majid Al-Shaheen, Director of Haido Academy, the sports arm of CAN Abdullah Al-Saleh. The two sides discussed means of joint cooperation in the field of sports in order to increase health awareness and to draw attention to the importance of medical activity.

Al-Baidan on his part lauded the campaign’s activities and its awareness role that focus on reducing cancer rates in Kuwait especially that rates of recovery increase with early detection. He said PAS will support the campaign in many ways in the field of sport to achieve its goals due to the necessity of all government entities and private organizations to work together in support of such activities due to its effective role in raising the rate of health awareness.

Dr Hussa Al-Shaheen appreciated the meeting as it resulted in many positive issues, most importantly carrying out CAN’s year-long sport activities in cooperation with the PAS, adding that CAN strategy relies on several aspects: awareness, nutrition and activity, in addition to encouraging the society to follow a healthy lifestyle. Abdullah Al-Saleh thanked Yousuf Al-Baidan for PAS patronage of the Kuwait amateurs Football League, for patronizing CAN since 2017.

The academy’s sport activities enjoyed large turnout, as it carried out the physical fitness course lately with 46 participants and achieved considerable results. Al-Saleh said the campaign brought in a nutritionist for participants to give them a diet plan that agrees with their weights and had a coach to train them on the best exercises that helped them reach the best weight during the course.