Every life member, attached to the Indian Orthopaedic Association, has taken a pledge to perform at least one free surgery for a deserving patient, marking the National Bone and Joint Day falling on August 4.
Speaking to media persons here on Wednesday, Tamil Nadu Orthopaedic Association president R. Sivakumar said that every year, the Indian Orthopaedic Association observed August 4 with a theme.
Last year, the theme was road safety. Now, the theme for 2016 had been proposed as ‘one member, one free surgery.’ In Tamil Nadu, there were over 1,500 members and in Madurai Orthopaedic Society 110 members were present. It has been planned to perform free surgeries from August 3 to 5 to deserving patients.
Performing surgeries on such a massive scale would bring in awareness at a national level and it was also aimed at creating a world record.
Apart from this, the members have planned to deliver talks on prevention aspects, to conduct special camp for Osteoporosis detection and management on August 4 at GRH and to organise a walkathon in the city on August 6 which was expected to be flagged-off by Minister Sellur K. Raju.
Senior doctors P.V. Pugalenthi, M. N. Karthick said that today alone, six surgeries were performed in the city for the poor and deserving patients by their members as a part of the national theme.
By involving people from all walks of life, the walkathon would create awareness on the need to follow do’s and donts in day-to-day activities. The rising levels of patients getting admitted in trauma care wards was not a good sign and prevention would become reality only when different stakeholders came together, they said.
Be it drunken driving or rash and negligent driving, the number of youths turning to hospitals was alarming. Thus, doctors alone cannot stop this and a concerted effort from all sections in the society may fetch in desired results, the members opined.
The theme for 2016 has been proposed by the association
as ‘one member, one free surgery’
