Home Rule wants good life for Greenlanders

SIKU CIRCUMPOLAR NEWS

Inuuneritta or “Let’s have a good life” is a new Home Rule government project to make Greenlanders more healthy and live longer.

“Our lifestyle and the way we live impacts on our state of health and controls which illnesses we, as a population, develop,” said Asii Chemnitz Narup, the government’s minister for health and family.

Life expectancy in Greenland is 65 years — ten years less than in Denmark.