The Association for the Concern of Women’s Health in Macau held yesterday its inauguration ceremony, with the aim of promoting women’s health education, health care knowledge and enhance the community’s awareness of women’s health needs.
Speaking to the media on the sidelines of the ceremony at Metropole Hotel Macau in Nam Van, Flora Cheong Sou Peng, the association’s founding chairperson, quoted research as pointing out that women have three more organs with more risks for them to come down with diseases than men, but “many women, in general, do not pay attention to this”. She said: “Women’s health issues start to develop from the age of nine, which can also be said to be from nine years old to the fifties and beyond, and even the old age of 65,” with hormonal and endocrine* disorders being more serious in women than in men.
According to Cheong, the association has been established to promote women’s health education, advocate the importance of women’s health, promote family harmony and well-being, and foster the healthy development of civic society.
Cheong briefed the media on the association’s future work plan, during which she revealed that the association will hold its first health talk focusing on the immune system and endocrine system in the middle of next month.
*The endocrine system is a network of glands and organs in the body that produce and secrete hormones, which regulate various physiological processes. – DeepSeek
Macau Association for the Concern of Women’s Health Chairwoman Flora Cheong Sou Peng delivers a speech during the association’s inauguration ceremony at Metropole Hotel Macau in Nam Van yesterday. – Photo: Yuki Lei
