To commemorate the Know Your Numbers’ Week, Kennedy’s Pharmacy in Rasharkin and Dunloy are providing free blood pressure checks.
All people living in Rasharkin and Dunloy are being encouraged by Kennedy’s Pharmacy to avail of the free blood test that they are providing during the Know Your Numbers! week this current year. Anyone can get their blood pressure tested from Monday the 10th of September through Saturday the 15th of September between 9am and 6pm in Kennedy’s Pharmacy in both places.
Frequently known as the ‘silent killer’ there approximately sixteen million grown ups in the UK who have hyper tension and more than five million of them are not even aware of the fact that they have this condition. If not treated, hyper tension can increase the dangers of the person having a stroke, heart related diseases, dementia and renal problems subsequently leading to unnecessary deaths and various disabilities. Heart disease or strokes are the cause for the death of 62 thousand people in the country and these in all probability could have been avoided if their blood pressure had been checked and kept under control.
Actually hyper tension is a condition that can be well regulated with simple alterations in one’s way of living and medications. A range of facilities are provided in the pharmacy that can help in lowering blood pressure with programmes like reduction of weight and the stopping of smoking.
The one means of determining whether a person has blood pressure is to get oneself checked on a regular basis and to bear in mind that those numbers just like they would remember their weight and height.
Zara Matthews, the pre-registration pharmacist, stated that it was absolutely essential that one has to be attentive of one’s blood pressure numbers and she said that they anticipated that existing as well as the new customers would avail of this chance to walk in for a free test. It has been many years now since Kennedy’s Pharmacy has been a part of the Know Your Numbers! Week and have constantly found that they have been extremely successful in help people to be aware of the need to know more about the dangers of high blood pressure.
Any doubts that need to be cleared regarding one’s blood pressure or regarding Know Your Numbers programme can be done by getting in touch with Kennedy’s pharmacy in Rasharkin on 028 295 71124 or Kennedy’s Pharmacy Dunloy on 028 276 57803.
