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Karur doctors get a feel of stressbusters

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much needed: Yoga session under way at Government Hospital in Karur on Saturday.

KARUR: Exercises such as yoga could help retain focus and increase concentration in work, especially for those in stress-filled spheres such as the medical profession. By practising mind concentration exercises, both the professional and their patients stand to gain, according to speakers at an inter-personal communication skill development programme for medical and para-medical professionals at the Government Hospital here on Saturday. Inaugurating the two-day programme, conducted under the auspices of the Tamil Nadu Health Systems Project, Collector T.N. Venkatesh said that the programme would be of immense use to the government health service delivery professionals such as doctors and nurses as they were required to attend to a lot of people who come to meet them with stress borne out of illness.Already the people who come to the hospitals would be weighed down by the intensity of the illness while their stress would have a rub off effect on the medical professionals, who were required to treat many people within a short span of time. If the doctors and nurses could treat the patients with some tenderness and reserve some kind words for them, then half the disease and depression of the patients could be dispelled.

To achieve that end, exercises such as yoga could help the medical professionals retain concentration and focus in their work in a better fashion.

Such a programme was being arranged for the first time in the district and medical professionals would do well to attend the programme and reap the benefits, Mr. Venkatesh said.

The Nityananda Dhyana Peetam, Bengaluru, was instrumental in conducting the training programme. Sri Nitya Sarvananda Acharya of the Peetam, who put the participating medical and paramedical professionals through the grind, said that bliss must be the goal of the professionals even when they were working in a stress-filled environment. Dhyana and yoga would facilitate better concentration as the exercises transcend manmade barriers of religion and caste. Also it was easy for anyone to practice yoga, but only through the prescribed routines.

Joint Director of Health Service Dr. Govindasamy, Coordinator of the programme at the Government Hospital, Karur, Dr. Rajasekar, and others participated.

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