Thousands participate in inter school health festival at health Mela

Inaugurating Ecofest, an inter school health festival, held at Perfect Health Mela, Mr. B P Singh Head NCSTC and Mr A P Singh ZM LIC, said that one should not play with both internal and external environment. The Mela is being organized by Heart Care Foundation of India at Constitution Club of India

As is the microcosm so is the macrocosm is a saying from the Upanishads, which means that environment affects the body and the collective consciousness of the people affects the environment. The recurrent cyclones in the ocean also reflect the negative state of mind in the collective consciousness of the people.

Padma Shri & Dr. BC Roy National Awardee, Dr. KK Aggarwal President Heart Care Foundation of India said that Diwali is a festival when there is Amavasya outside and Purnima inside i.e. after purification of mind, body and soul, a process done during Navratra and Dussehra ends up in purification of heart on Diwali Amavasya day and with resultant inner happiness represented by inner Purnima.

Burning of crackers is not only harmful for the lungs through air pollution but also to the heart through noise pollution.

Children were also told to avoid sweets, which contain 30% sugar and also trans fats as they can spoil the biochemistry of sugar and cholesterol metabolism in the body and ultimately lead to heart diseases.

Prizes were given to the winners of the Harmony Inter School Festival (Inter School/Competitions)

Bharatnatyam Jr Solo

1^st Gopika U (Creative Rhythm)

2^nd Mitra Suresh (Creative Rhythm)

3^rd Akshara S Nair (Creative Rhythm)

Bharatnatyam Sr Solo

1^st B Somya (Nritya Bharti)

2^nd Tanisqa Chauhan (Kala Samriddhi)

3rd Shirin Kaul (Sadhna – The School of Arts)

Do not ignore stroke

In a panel discussion organised at the Mela, Dr. Vipul Gupta from Medanta – The Medicity, Gurgaon and Dr Vinay Goyal from AIIMS both noted neurologists and Dr K K Aggarwal in a joint statement said that paralysis can be cured if the patient can reach the hospital in less than four and a half hours.

 Homoeopaths and Ayurveda Doctors should learn basics of cardiac investigations

All doctors from other recognized pathies should update their knowledge in modern investigations, said Dr Sameer Shrivastava from Escorts Heart Institute.

Do not ignore early morning chest pain

Dr. Vivek Kumar from Max Health Care said that heart attacks are most common in early hours of the day.

Dengue stall attracts crowd

MCD and NDMC are displaying live mosquitoes as well as big models of mosquitoes at the Mela venue. A large number of dengue patients are also coming for consultation from all pathies. Dengue mosquito can easily be distinguished from other mosquitoes because of the presence of stripes on its body.

 Thousands learn at Food Adulteration stall of DST

Department of Science & Technology is creating awareness about prevention of food adulteration. Commenting on the same, Dr. Aggarwal said that excessive use of permissible colours can be hazardous to health.

Transport Department creating awareness on safe driving

People with uncontrolled diabetes, sugar and angina should not drive without medical clearance. The requirements for commercial driving are different from non-commercial driving. No doctor should give a certificate of medical fitness to a driver unless he has examined the patient himself. Giving wrong certificate may be professional misconduct and can lead to erasure of name from the medical register.

 Following health messages were released

 1.    Twenty or more diseases can be transmitted via blood which can be
potentially fatal.

2.    The amount of blood required for transmission for Hepatitis B
virus is only 0.00004 ml.

3.    High blood pressure is responsible for 67% of heart attacks, 77% of paralytic attacks, 74% of heart failure cases and 26% of kidney diseases.

4.    High blood pressure causes more visits to doctor than any other condition.

5.    High blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes are silent killers.

6.    A 5 mm reduction in upper blood pressure reading and 2 mm reduction in lower blood pressure reading of the community can reduce the incidence of heart attack, paralysis and heart failure by up to 40%.

7.    Ayurveda totally prohibits taking salt with the milk.

8.    As per Charak Samhita, too much of pippalli, alkali and salt are bad for the health.

9.    3D Echo ejection fraction is much more reliable and reproducible
than 2D Echo based ejection fraction.

10.       Diabetes is considered as coronary heart disease equivalent and one in five patients in diabetes will have abnormal exercise test.

Health Mela is the best low-cost health awareness module

21st October 2013: New Delhi India: The health Mela concept is one of the most field-tested and successful low-cost modules for creating health awareness in the country.  The concept was started by Heart Care Foundation of India in 1993 and the Government of India earmarked the occasion by issuing a national commemorative postal stamp.  Later, the concept was adopted by the Ministry of Health, Government of India under Swasthya Mela Scheme.

Addressing a press conference, Padma Shri and Dr. B C Roy National Awardee, Dr. K K Aggarwal, President Heart Care Foundation of India said that Health Mela concept is nothing but passing on credible health information to the people who are gathered by attracting them using traditional folk or modern infotainment modules.

The press conference was organized to earmark the 0th MTNL Perfect Health Mela to open on 23rd October.

The Mela is being organized by the Heart Care Foundation of India at Constitution Club of India, New Delhi from 23rd to 27th October, 2013 in association with the Departments of Central and Delhi Government, Central Bank of India, LIC, Coca Cola, GAIL and various hospitals and NGOs.  

The press was co-addressed by Mr. Ashok Chakradhar, noted Poet and Dr. Praveen Chandra, Chairman, Interventional Cardiology at Medanta - The Medicity, Gurgaon.

The experts said that today when Delhi alone has over 65 national news channels and newspapers, there is always a shortage of medical experts available for quotes.

 

Any wrong information from the mouth of a health expert can create panic in the society.  Giving examples the experts said that Swine Flu panic ended up with increased number of patients with rheumatic fever and dengue epidemic panic has ended up with unnecessary platelet transfusion.

The expert said that time has come for the health information to be regulated by the councils.  

Dr. Aggarwal said that under Section 7.11 of Code of Medical Ethics by Medical Council of India,  a doctor should not contribute to the lay press articles and give interviews regarding diseases and treatments which may have the effect of advertising himself or soliciting practices; but is open to write to the lay press under his own name on matters of public health, hygienic living or to deliver public lectures, give talks on the radio/TV/internet chat for the same purpose and send announcement of the same to lay press.

Therefore, any exaggeration of a disease or creating panic in the society, soliciting patients amounts to professional misconduct.

The experts talked about the following principles of communication:

1.   The health information should be fact-based, field tested and should not create any panic or fear in the society.

2.   The principles of hit the iron when it is hot and involving the people who counts should be adhered to.

3.   While giving a health statement, the doctor should also quote credible source of information.

4.   As of today, the credible sources of studies are Meta-Analysis, Randomized controlled studies and Reviews published in credible journals.  Individual case reports or non-randomized controls may not be accepted as the recommendations.

5.   Any claim of cure should be accepted with a pinch of salt.

6.   The Medical Council of India does not allow doctors to endorse any drug or product publicly. The council expects that any study conducted by a doctor on the efficacy or otherwise of a product shall be first presented to and/or through appropriate scientific bodies or published in a proper scientific journal in a proper way. 

7.   Health information should be evidence-based medicine. 

About HCFI : The only National Not for profit NGO, on whose mega community health education events, Govt. of India has released two National Commemorative stamps and one cancellation stamp, and who has conducted one to one training on” Hands only CPR” of 63425 people since 1st November 2012.

 

The CPR 10 Mantra is – “Within 10 minutes of death, earlier the better; at least for the next 10 minutes, longer the better; compress the centre of the chest of the dead person continuously and effectively with a speed of 10x10 i.e. 100 per minute.”