Highlighting this year’s theme - ‘Prevention of vector-borne diseases’, on the occasion of World Health Day, the medical fraternity in the temple city reiterated the importance of the age old maxim ‘Prevention is better than cure’.
All major medical institutions and hospitals here organised medical camps and awareness programmes to draw peoples’ attention to issues related to some of the most commonly known vectors like mosquitoes, bugs, snails and others responsible for transmitting a wide range of diseases.
B. Vengamma, Director and Vice-Chancellor of Sri Venkateswara Institute of Medical Sciences (SVIMS), spoke on the diseases caused by mosquitoes and urged people to follow certain precautions which would keep mosquitoes at bay. The varsity’s Department of Medicine Head, Alladi Mohan, delivered a speech on ‘Small bite, Big threat’ and spoke on various prevention methodologies. He also gave a presentation on the timeline of World Health Day from 1948.
Meanwhile, renowned neurologist T.S. Kanaka, urged women to be cautious with respect to their health. Addressing employees at Sri Venkateswara Employees Training Academy (SVETA), Dr. Kanaka advised them to engage themselves in physical exercise including yoga and meditation. “Women are now competing with men on every level in today’s competitive world. In this regard, a woman’s health holds utmost importance. If she is healthy, her family will be healthy and then the entire country will prosper,” she added.
World Health Day is observed every year on April 7, to commemorate the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) founding and draw attention to a specific health issue across the world.
