Mobile clinic does heart check

A mobile health clinic visited Woy Woy recently to raise aware about heart disease.

Set up outside Deepwater Plaza shopping centre, the clinic was run by Health Solution as part of its community health awareness program.

The program was designed to increase public awareness of the dangers of coronary heart disease by giving people the opportunity to assess their own risk factors.

It also allows Health Solutions to look at the yearly trends and variants in each area visited.

Participants who visited the mobile clinic were given a basic cardiovascular assessment, which included a blood cholesterol test, diabetes and anaemia test, blood pressure measurement and an analysis of each persons individual risk factors.

General advice and health information was provided at no cost.

Tests took less than 15 minutes and written result forms were given with advice and participants were counselled on exactly what they should do next.

The clinic visited Woy Woy from February 21 to 25.

Press release, February 21 Jane Cooper, Health Solutions Community Health Program