The National Treasury has set up a gym for its staff, targeting to help them keep fit and improve bonding and team building.
The free welfare center is housed at Nairobi’s Bima House and has state-of-the-art training tools. It can handle 250–300 customers per day at various intervals.
“Because it is a welfare facility, there will be no cost. The Treasury said even as it invited bids for operators of the facilities, “The Health Club is fully equipped with modern equipment for training and is intended to operate daily between Monday and Friday from 5.00 am to 9.00 pm and from 8.00 am to 3.00 pm over the weekends and public holidays or as will be agreed.”
Demand for fitness gyms has risen sharply globally as users sought to keep away diseases and counter the side effects of their hectic urban lifestyles.
Health analysts say gym sessions help to increase cardiovascular fitness and boost an individual’s overall health. Regular workouts also help in reducing stress, anxiety, depression, and other diseases affecting health.
“To make the health facility operational, the National Treasury is looking for a service provider who will offer professional and expert training in the hitherto stated areas and further maintain the machines and equipment,” the Treasury said.
The operator of the gym must provide services including instruction in physical fitness, aerobic and anaerobic exercises, self-defense, physiotherapy, massage, aelaxotheloply, as well as nutritional training, according to the Treasury.
The gym will also provide boot camps, first-aid classes, field and outdoor training, team building activities, and saunas.
“The proposed service provider will be a competent professional firm club or a consortium of professional experts in physical training, registered locally with the Ministry of Sports and Youth or any other recognised national regional or international sports body, who will provide the aforestated training” the Treasury added.
