NSW’s largest heart health check tour comes to Western Sydney
It’s time to action: over 50% of local population overweight or obese, and around one in three families affected by heart disease
Event:
NSW’s largest heart health check tour Western Sydney launch
When:
10.30am, Thursday 18 July 2019
Where:
Rouse Hill Town Centre, near IMB Bank branch
Spokespeople:
Chris Minol, local PE teacher, Dad, and heart disease survivor
Jayne Baric, Nurse & Heart Health Check Tour Manager, Victor Chang Cardiac Research InstituteHills Shire Mayor Dr Michelle ByrneRobert Ryan, CEO, IMB Bank Community Foundation (Funders)
Thanks to a $150,000 grant donated by The IMB Bank Community Foundation, a team of nurses from the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute is landing in Western Sydney on Thursday 18 July, as part of the largest ever mobile public heart health check tour in NSW and the ACT.
On the day, heart disease survivor Chris Minol will be there to talk about the importance of the tour, and his own journey with the condition doctors described as a ‘widow maker’. Chris will be joined by Mayor Dr Michelle Byrne, Mayor of the Hills Shire, and Robert Ryan, CEO of IMB Bank.
Other Western Sydney heart health check tour locations include Liverpool, Oran Park, Narellan, Campbelltown, Picton, and Penrith.
For more information, or to arrange attendance, contact Blue Planet Public Relations:
Cathryn Buchanan – [email protected] or (02) 9816 3277
Sophie Blue – [email protected] or 0416 006 821
Media contact:
Sophie Blue, Mobile: 0416 006 821
