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Fortis Hospital, Mulund organises its very first ‘Health Mela 2015’, aims to keep people healthy all through the New Year.

by The Editors | editor@themetrognome.in

Healthy people make a healthy nation. However, recent changes in lifestyle, unconventional influences, ecological imbalances, and improper food habits are contributing to the creation of an unhealthy community. In view of the soaring health concerns affecting children and older people, Fortis Hospital, Mulund organised the ‘Health Mela 2015’, aimed at providing information on all that one needs to maintain good health.

The fair commenced yesterday, January 9, 2015.

Emphasising good food habits and healthy living, ‘Health-Mela 2015’ was an amalgamation of numerous activities – ranging from free health screenings, drawing competition for children, healthy-baby contest for toddlers, and a series of lectures imparting knowledge about healthy living and how to keep the ailments at bay. The Health Mela also offered customised health check-up packages, as a first step towards wellness. People were offered tests for blood pressure, total cholesterol, blood glucose, ophthalmic, heart rate and many more. Stalls were set-up in the Hospital premises, offering vital information about the person’s health and wellbeing.

Talking about the objective behind the initiative, Dr S Narayani, Zonal Director, Fortis Hospital Mulund, said, “The ongoing health fair will help people get the New Year off to a healthy start. The ‘Health Mela’ is an attempt to educate the community about how important it is to have preventive healthcare.” She added that the event also targeted the needs of children by providing valuable information on nutrition and exercise. “Besides being educative and informative, the event was also a fun-and-frolic environment for the children. Nearly 200 children from various age-groups participated in drawing competitions organised by the Hospital. Similarly, nearly 65 toddlers were part of the healthy baby contest,” said Rinku Mavani, Head of Marketing and Sales at the hospital.

(Pictures courtesy Fortis Hospital, Mulund)

City hosts three dementia seminars

Dementia and Alzheimer’s awareness seminars at three places in the city reached out to several relevant stakeholders. A pitch report.

by The Editors | editor@themetrognome.in

The Mumbai-based social enterprise, Echoing Healthy Aging (EHA) organised seminars on dementia and Alzheimer’s at venues in South Mumbai, Mulund and Bandra last week. The seminars, titled ‘Dementia Sense’ were held to coincide with September 21, World Alzheimer’s Day.

The seminars got a very good response from participants and especially from stakeholders such as nursing schools, caregivers, family members of dementia sufferers, occupation therapists, matrons and nursing tutors, among others.

A senior nurse from Bhakti Vedant Hospital said, “As a nurse, very often I come across old patient [suffering] with Alzheimer’s. I always found it difficult to understand their behaviour. This seminar helped me understand the point of view of the person with dementia and the five golden rules given in the seminar will definitely help me to work more efficiently in caring for patients with dementia.”

Added a senior lecturer from Sion Hospital’s nursing school, “It is time for us to change our attitudes towards this chronic disease ‘dementia’, and support families of people living with dementia. I hope more such seminars are conducted more often, and they will make people realise that people living with dementia too can have a good quality of life.”

‘I had to put variety of locks on my front door,so that my husband diagnosed with severe dementia, doesn’t go out of house and forget his way back home. But this caused more agitation and aggression in him. This seminar gave me tips to solve this problem and they are simple and easy to implement. It will also give my husband a sense of independence and at the same time, I can keep him safe,” explained a family caregiver of a person suffering from dementia.

See a few pictures from the event:

(Pictures courtesy EHA)