Church should promote wellness

Tuesday, February 26th, 2013

CHURCH leaders are being encouraged to motivate their respective congregations to take care of their personal wellness.

This comes in light of the Fiji Wellness Summit 2013 which took place over Thursday and Friday at the Fiji National University (FNU) in Suva. Speaking to this newspaper yesterday was the Ministry of Health’s Ravinesh Chetty, who is part of the Ministry’s National Centre for Wellness.

“All the faith-based organisations have a very big role to play in this area,” he said. “In fact there are many of these church ministers and pastors who are doing this already.

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