• BruHealth’s Billion Steps Together is a campaign that kicked off with a walkathon at Taman Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddien, to encourage the nation towards living a healthier lifestyle
• Over 12,000 registrations received within 3 days for Billion Steps Together and BN on the Move, a health management plan in BruHealth that went live last Monday, August 8
• Apart from tracking daily steps, BN on the Move lets users add friends via QR code and links through various social media platforms to encourage and challenge each other
• Campaign showcases the changing function of BruHealth from pandemic management to health management
• Physical activity can lead to weight loss, improved glucose tolerance and reduced blood pressure

Dato Seri Setia Dr Haji Mohammad Isham bin Haji Jaafar, Minister of Health, said: “With the launch of one of the health management features in the BruHealth app, the BN on the Move feature will hopefully encourage the public to lead a healthier lifestyle by exercising or conducting activities together. Activity trackers provide data which enable you to become aware of your physical activity levels, work towards a goal and monitor progress. Studies have shown walking and physical activities can lead to weight loss, improved glucose tolerance and reduced blood pressure. As part of the Ministry of Health’s plans to further develop the BruHealth app to become a Digital Health App that can personally tailor health plans for each individual, MOH and EVYD Technology have laid out plans to roll out in phases improvements to BruHealth to ensure the public can benefit using it, and to personalize BruHealth for individual person health management plans.”

Mr Chua Ming Jie, CEO of EVYD Technology, said: “EVYD Technology is pleased to partner the Ministry of Health to launch Billion Steps Together, to get Bruneians and residents out and about and getting fitter and healthier together. This is part of our commitment to improving people’s health at the national, community and individual levels, and builds on our work with the ministry in optimizing the healthcare sector in Brunei.”

“We are pleased to have helped the ministry develop a COVID-19 pandemic management platform with BruHealth, and to now partner them to encompass population and individual health management with its evolution into a national health app. Today’s launch of Billion Steps Together is just our latest joint initiative to improve the health of Bruneians. We look forward to launching more initiatives in future to give them the best health outcomes possible.”

Participants in the Billion Steps Together campaign are able to view their personal rankings amongst their friends and within the country from a leaderboard in the app. They can also view the number of steps contributed to the campaign in order to reach 1 billion steps. The nation’s progress towards 1 billion steps can also be seen as a live update in the BruHealth app. Active participants who continually track their steps and invite their friends to join in the plan will be rewarded with prizes, which will be announced soon.

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