Mutungamiriri we Tonga Akilisi Pohiva akadaidzira vamwe vatungamiriri venyika muPacific kuti vadzike pasi kuti vape muenzaniso wakanaka kuvagari venharaunda yerotund. Akatokurudzira kuti vagadzire makwikwi ekudzikisa uremu.
Pacific inogara pamatanho epamusoro-soro epasi rese ekufutisa uye zvirwere zvisingatapuriranwe, uye Pohliva akaronga kuita kuti makwikwi acho ave chikamu chePacific Islands Forum, musangano wepagore wenyika dzakazvimirira muPacific Ocean. Mutungamiri weTonga akakurudzira kuti mutungamiri wega wega ayerwe pamusangano wegore rino asati adzoka gore rinotevera kune imwe muyero.
"Hazvirevi kuti ndiani anorasikirwa nemakirosi akawanda, asi kuti ubvise huremu, unofanira kudya mwenje uye kuva nepfungwa dzakanaka kunoenda kure," akadaro Pohiva, aimbova mudzidzisi pachikoro, akaudza The Samoa Observer. "Vatungamiriri pavanenge vava kujairana nemafungiro iwayo vanenge vakatsunga kuita kuti vanhu vavo vave pachinhu chimwe chete voenda kubva ipapo."
Sekureva kwesangano reWorld Health Organisation, mwana mumwe chete pavashanu nevachiri kuyaruka munyika gumi dzePacific vanoonekwa sevanhu vakafutisa, nepo kumwe kuongorora kuchiratidza kuti makumi mana kusvika makumi manomwe muzana evana vakafutisa vanozova vanhu vakuru vakafutisa. IWHO inoti kuwanda kwekuneta mudunhu iri pasi pekutsiva chikafu chetsika nezvakatorwa kunze kwenyika, zvakagadzirwa.
In Nauru, 61 percent of adults are obese. On the Cook Islands, the figure is 56 percent. Globally, around 12 percent of adults are classed as obese. The high rates of obesity in region has led life expectancy to drop while cases of diabetes and cardiovascular disease have risen.
Pohiva akataura kushushikana nehurombo hwakashata hwezvirongwa zvirikuedza kugadzirisa nyaya iyi muPacific uye akati anovimba kuti makwikwi ekudzikisa uremu anogona kuratidza muenzaniso wakanaka kuti vanhu vatevere.
"Chirwere chisingatapurirane [mwero] uye kufutisa kwevana kune zvese zvine chekuita nemadyiro edu uye mararamiro edu uye inyaya yakaoma kana tasvika kuvanhu vedu vePacific," akadaro.
"Uye nevatungamiriri vezvitsuwa zvePacific, tinosangana uye tinotaura nekutaura pamusoro penyaya iyi, asi zvirongwa zvedambudziko iri hazvisi kukanganisa ... Tanga tichikurudzira nyaya imwe chete mumakore apfuura asi zvinoita kunge isingashande."
