Newly appointed Department of Health (DOH) Secretary Teodoro Herbosa on Saturday promoted bicycles as a sustainable, reasonably priced, and various technique of transportation.
“Biking is a simple yet effective form of exercise and helps in reducing the levels of pollution in the country,” Herbosa mentioned throughout the World Bicycle Day celebration in Taguig City.
“If Taguig can do this, I challenge every city to encourage and support biking both as an alternative mode of transportation and as a means to reduce pollution in the country,” he added.
The occasion additionally launched the DOH’s Active Transport Playbook, which obtained P1,150,000 in funding to advertise lively modes of transportation, equivalent to biking and strolling, as efficient means to mitigate the prevalence of non-communicable ailments.
World Bicycle Day is a worldwide initiative by the United Nations General Assembly that goals to advertise using bicycles as a sustainable mode of transportation. — Sherylin Untalan/VBL, GMA Integrated News
Source: www.gmanetwork.com
