Free health day comes to Milbertshofen-Am Hart for the first time

A free health day is being held in Milbertshofen-Am Hart on Friday 25 September, with activities, advice and information on offer from 1pm to 5pm in and outside the Kulturhaus Milbertshofen at Curt-Mezger-Platz 1. It is the first time the event, called Health Day North, has taken place in the district.

The day is organised by the city's Health Department, through its 'Munich – healthy locally' programme and the Hasenbergl health centre, together with the Milbertshofen-Am Hart education centre run by the Department of Education and Sport and many other local social and educational organisations. Like earlier health days in Ramersdorf and Neuperlach, Messestadt Riem, Hasenbergl and Sendling-Westpark, it aims to build residents' health knowledge in a playful way.

Under the slogan 'Do and laugh', there is something for all ages, from a health quiz and advice on health, nutrition and patients' rights to exercise and games. Visitors can also pick up information material and try out different sports. Representatives of the German Bone Marrow Donor Registry (DKMS) will be on site with the Health Department, and visitors can register as potential stem cell donors for blood cancer patients.

Mayor Verena Dietl said holding the event in Milbertshofen-Am Hart for the first time was an important sign that the city's health promotion reaches people directly in their everyday lives and neighbourhoods. Beatrix Zurek, head of the Health Department, said the wide range of activities meant there really was something for everyone. Schools commissioner Florian Kraus said health and healthy eating were always an educational matter too.

Entry is free and the event goes ahead whatever the weather, as there are activities both indoors and outdoors. The full programme is available at https://stadt.muenchen.de/infos/muenchen-gesund-vor-ort.html.

The event is funded in part by the Bavarian State Ministry of Health, Care and Prevention's 'Sport locally – outdoors, open to all' programme, part of Bavaria's prevention master plan, and by AOK Bayern through its 'Healthy Community' project funding.