Health minister Abdullah Ameen gave the commitment that the government will give full support for the implementation of the physical activity policy and guidelines.

Minister Ameen said this while attending the closing ceremony of the consultation workshop held for drafting National Physical Activity Policy and Guidelines.

The 2-day stakeholder consultation workshop was held from 12-13 November 2019 in Male’ City. The consultation team of this workshop Tiny hearts Maldives states that, the Participants were multisectoral, multidisciplinary group of experts ranging from public, private to civil society and community representations. Ministries, health professionals, sports, fitness & recreation, community engagement, senior citizens, youth, media, disabilities, urban design & environment were some representations in the diverse technical working group.

Moreover, Tiny Hearts Maldives stated that this consultation is a part of the ongoing work in drafting National physical activity policy and National physical activity guidelines for different age groups of the Maldivian population based on WHO global recommendations.

Tiny hearts also stated that the national policy will provide backing, coherence and visibility at political level, while also creating coherence and aligning the goals, objectives and strategies of the very many multisectoral stakeholders involved in encouraging and enabling increases in physical activity and decreases in sedentary behaviors at any level.

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