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Tricitynews
Chandigarh
23rd October:- Tricity inter-college debate competition was held under the
aegis of NGO- SPEAK India; Society for Promotion of Ethical and
Affordable health Care in collaboration with Post Graduate Government College
for Girls(PGGCG), Sec 11 at the college's campus. The topic of the
debate was ‘Doctors have no role in healthcare?’ 14 teams from various colleges
participated. Prof Maninder Sidhu of the host college welcomed the guests and
participants. While first prize was won by Armand David from DAV College , Sec
10, second position went to Gurmehak Kaur Grewal from PGGCG, Sec 11
and 3rdwas Sumiran Sharma, PGGCG, Sec 42, Chandigarh. The
winners were given cash prizes & trophies. Certificates of merit were given
to all the participants. The first prize was sponsored by Avtarjeet Dhanjal a
celebrated sculptor from UK. The main objective was to spread healthy lifestyle
education and to reduce the role of doctors, medicines, tests by 80%. It also
aimed to promote oration among the youth and to make them partners in health
promotion.
Dr.
R.Kumar senior eye specialist and President of the society, who was the
principal speaker said that the focus has to shift from the care of the sick to
care of healthy population, so that they don’t fall sick. While India cannot
afford the luxury of medical or surgical treatment, the only option for us is
to go for PRESERVATION of health by following healthy habits and proper life
style. We do not have to be medicine minded or test minded but we must be
health minded. This is the paradigm shift that is required.
His
emphasis was that the people need to think before going to a hospital and they
can dwell on the factors that are responsible for making them unwell. These can
be things like Smartphone addiction, dehydration, obesity, sleep deprivation,
anemia, lack of exercise, over work and over ambition that often lead to
stress, sadness and fatigue besides lack of sunlight and inadequate
ventilation. He specially castigated wide spread intake of white
poison foods. He also advocated teaching ethics at every stage of education. He
appealed to universities to introduce a 4 years course after pre-medical,
’Guide to health and wellness’. A guide will look after the health of 500
persons and will not allow them to fall sick. He will not be called a doctor
and will note prescribe any medicine. This will create millions of jobs,
increase productivity, improve economy and reduce national expense on disease
treatment.
Sarban
Singh IAS, Dr. J.S. Thakur Dr. Sharad Prabhakar, Kinny Grewal & R K
Garg also spoke.
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