World Health Day - Kshema

Department of Community Medicine K S Hegde Medical Academy and Govt High school Hejamadikodi (Udupi) Conducted World Health Day 2015 Awareness Programme for 8th and 9th std students On 7 th April 2015 . Food borne diseases and food poisoning is part of their syllabus. Around eighty students participated in the programme. Welcome speech was given by govt school staff. Introduction to WHO theme 2015 was given by Dr Sanjay Kini. Prior to speech we tested the Knowledge on Food Safety among students and their Knowledge was inadequate. Talk on” FOOD SAFETY” was delivered by Dr Vinayak J K first year post graduate. Dr Lakshmi S Pillai and Medico social worker Mr Santhosh N P and head master Murti .T Kuchinad, motivated the students to participate in Question and answer round. We took feedback from both the students and teachers, they replied that the programme was good and informative.