SAGINAW, MI— Created by the U.S. Congress in 1994 to intensify consciousness of preventable well being issues and encourage early detection and therapy of illness amongst males and boys, June has been acknowledged as Men’s Health Awareness Month.

Organized by the Saginaw Alumni Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity and The Dow occasion middle, the eleventh annual All Men’s Health Fair shall be returning on Saturday, June 3.

Running from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., this yr’s free well being honest will characteristic plenty of sources of well being and wellness data, in addition to screenings for listening to, imaginative and prescient, dental, ldl cholesterol and blood stress ranges, in addition to on-site speedy HIV testing.

Dwayne Parker, well being & wellness chair of the Saginaw Alumni Chapter, stated the honest has been a profitable option to attain out to males across the space to offer the knowledge they could not usually hunt down for themselves.

“We recognize that men fall short in taking care of themselves in the same ways that their female counterparts do,” Parker stated. “Men take better care of their cars than they do themselves. They change the oil, get a tune-up. When it comes to an annual physical checkup, we don’t go to the doctor until we’re in pain or until it’s too late sometimes.”

He added that the popularity of Men’s well being consciousness month or comparable initiatives has been a mandate by the all-male fraternity since earlier than he was a member, which performed closely into the choice to host the honest.

“That’s part of the reason we put on this health fair,” Parker stated. “We have a national fraternal mandate called ‘Healthy Kappas,’ from our national headquarters. We decided to put together the fair to help promote the mandate, and foster a healthy community.”

He stated the honest already has 36 completely different healthcare supplier supporter stations, a few of which is able to present screenings alongside others offering data on learn how to search data they would want to search out in a physician’s workplace.

“We’re trying to provide head-to-toe health screenings,” Parker stated.

Some of these screenings occurring on-site, based on Parker, embrace:

• The Saginaw Valley State University nurse practitioner program offering mini-health assessments and B.M.I checks
• Hearing Life, previously often called Hozer’s Hearing, offering audiology evaluations
• Dr. Jack Nash, DDS, and representatives from his dental workplace offering dental sources

Several others shall be out there to offer dietary assessments.

For data, go to the Kappa Alpha Psi Saginaw Alumni Chapter Facebook page

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