Excelsior Correspondent
NOWSHERA, May 21: Attributing recent skirmishes on border followed by mass migration as a major incident for the prevalence of Cardiovascular Diseases, Dr. Sushil Sharma, HoD Cardiology today preferred to conduct a health check up camp with the displaced population in Nowshera sector amidst recent tensions on the LoC.
He asserted that many psychological and behavioural variables that are correlated with health acts viciously during current circumstances are responsible for the onset of many chronic ailments. The main aim of such camps is to promote health awareness and lifestyle issues in such migrant camps so that the migrant families become capable to respond, recover and cope up under such stressful conditions, he asserted.
Due to the prevailing uncertainty cases of heart diseases have also increased manifold observed Dr. Sushil and his team while examining patients. As stress, hypertension, lipid abnormalities were very high among the patients examined in the camp, Dr. Sushil said that there are thousands of people living along the borders of Jammu and Kashmir who are facing the harsh realities of life just for being border residents.
He further elaborated that such stressful life situations contribute to heart diseases and even affect behaviours and factors that increase heart disease risk like high blood pressure, cholesterol levels, smoking, physical inactivity and overeating. “The turbulence along the border didn’t let the residents breathe sigh of relief and repeated violation of ceasefire further push them to a situation which is full of stress, fear and unpredictable sufferings, he added.
More than 400 patients including displaced section and local residents availed the services rendered by the team of doctors under the supervision of Dr. Sushil Sharma. Free medicines were distributed as per advise and various tests like ECG, Blood Sugar and Lipid Profile Test were also conducted.
Others who were part of this human endeavour included Dr. Govind Sharma (BMO Nowshera), Dr. Poonam Jigayasi, Dr. Kewal Sharma, Dr. Anitipal Singh, Dr. Narendra Singh, Dr. Suresh Sharma, Dr. Shivani Tuli. Paramedics and volunteers includes Vikas Kumar, Rohit Khajuria, Nitan Sharma, Gorav Sharma, Ankush Kohli,Suresh Sharma, Rajinder Singh, Vikas Sabharwal, Puneet Sharma, Sajan Chandan, Kamal Sharma, Kashmiri Lal, Raghav Rajput and Raj Kumar.
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