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Tuesday 19 April 2016

Public Awareness Program, "World Health Day" - KSHEMA

The Department of Public Health organized a Public Awareness Program, "World Health Day" on 07-04-2016 at Bailur and Karkala Rural Areas.

Department of Public Health Conducted observance of World Health Day 2016 with the theme ‘Beat Diabetes’ on 7th April 2016 in Bailur and Karkala Rural areas. In Bailur World Health day was observed in association with K Srinivas Hegde Memorial Health Centre and Lions Club of Neere Bailur. A Jatha was flagged off by the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Dr.Ramananda Shetty. The Jatha consisted of students from BEM School and Government Primary School Bailur, coordinated by MPH Students. Along with Vice Chancellor Dr.Dineshchandra Hegde, Dr. Vittal Adyanthaya, Dr. Sanjay Kini, Prashant Santha and Lions Club members also participated in the Jatha. The Jatha terminated at K Srinivas Hegde Memorial Health Centre covering a distance of about one Kilometre.

Concurrently in Karkala World Health Day was observed in association with Nitte Gajria Specialty Hospital. An awareness Jatha was flagged off near Sri Venkatramana Temple by Prof Yogeesh Hegde, Registrar, NMAM Institute of Technology. Dr Jayaram Rai, Medical Director, Nitte Gajria Specialty Hospital; Dr Sudeep Kumar, Head, Dept of Public Health; Mr. MacwinD’Mello were present. The Jatha was coordinated by MPH students from Nitte University, students from Sri Venkatramana Women College and ManjunathPai Memorial Govt First Grade College Karkala.

Further to the awareness Programme, at K Srinivas Hegde Memorial Health Centre Bailur as well as at Gajria Specialty Hospital MPH students conducted Free Diabetes Screening camp using IDRS tool and random blood glucose checking. 80 subjects were screened out of which 10 were found to have higher sugar level and 70 with moderate and low risk for Diabetes. The patients with high risk were referred for further evaluation.



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