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Projects for children

Ma Foi Foundation has launched in association with K.G. Hospital and Autotech two projects for enabling underprivileged children to pursue education and to have access to quality health care.

Project Disha is the education scheme that Autotech has offered to support.

The foundation aims to bring down the dropout rate in middle schools and improve the pass percentage. Leadership skills programme will also be conducted in the schools.

K.G. Hospital will partner the foundation in providing quality healthcare to such children under Project Ekam.

A press release from the foundation says the hospital has offered to provide high quality and affordable treatment to children belonging to the lower economic strata of society.

The hospital will treat children in and around Coimbatore for eye and heart diseases.

Addressing the gathering at the launch of the projects here recently, Managing Trustee of the foundation Latha Rajan said these were already on in Chennai, Madurai and Virudhunagar.

Arthritis meet

Orthopaedic Surgeon at Kovai Medical Center and Hospital S. G. Thirumalaisamy organised recently a patient awareness program on the “Importance of Healthy Joints”. The programme was aimed at benefiting people who suffered from pain in the joints.

Dr. Thirumalaisamy said, “Arthritis has become one of the most widespread ailments in our country. A recent report stated that one million people are affected by this disease but only 14 per cent of them show interest in surgical correction.”

The surgeon said experts claimed that most Indians go for other traditional methods such as massage, home remedies, acupressure, etc., to get rid of the pain.

These remedies may be effective in the earlier stages of illness. However, later stages of arthritis cannot be cured with these alternative methods.

Treatment of joint pain would depend on the type of arthritis, its severity, and the patients’ overall health.

Joint replacement surgery was the most common and successful treatment for arthritis.

It involved replacing painful, arthritic parts of the joint with artificial surfaces shaped in such a way that would allow free movement.

The benefits of these surgeries generally lasted 15 to 20 years and certain implants had known to last up to 30 years.

Computer-assisted total knee replacement gave excellent outcome with very high precision of cuts.

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