Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 12: Dr Sushil Sharma, HoD Cardiology, Government Medical College, Jammu and his team conducted a day long health awareness camp at Prem Nagar, Miran Sahib in RS Pura area today.
Dr Sharma appealed to all sections of the society especially youth to take lead as there is lot to be done in rural areas.
“Unbeknown to most of us, the disease pattern in our country in general and particularly in rural area has undergone a considerable shift over the past few years,” he said and specifically cited the recent statistics that suggest that high blood pressure, one of the biggest risk factor for death worldwide, now affects one in five adults in rural areas.
Findings, he added, also projected that the deaths in rural areas due to communicable diseases are almost matched by those due to non-communicable diseases.
“Certain chronic diseases such as coronary artery disease, strokes, lung diseases and cancers lead to deaths as well as disability in rural areas. Most importantly, coronary artery disease figured among the top five leading causes of DALYs (Disability Adjusted Life Years) lost in current scenario, ” Dr Sharma emphasized.
Citing multiplicity of issues involved in paradigm shift of disease burden from urban to rural areas, Dr. Sushil said no doubt the burden of these ailments are immense but stressing on preventive aspects of cardiology is a viable strategy to mitigate the burden of CVD and other chronic NCD in rural areas. The collective factors viz., abnormal lipids, smoking, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, abdominal obesity, psycho social variables and alcohol consumption need early intervention so that they should not turn uglier enough to initiate the onset of chronic morbidities among common populace, he asserted.
Others who were part of this campaign include Dr Shahbaz Khan and Dr Dhaneshwer Kapoor. Paramedics and Volunteers include Kamal Sharma, Mohd Altaf, Gourav Heera, Vikas Kumar, Sandeep Kohli, Rajinder Singh, Suresh Baigra, Anmol Singh, Maninder Singh, Lovely Kumar, Kirtibhat and Raj Kumar.
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