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“SEE THE FUTURE”: The Health Minister, K.K.S.S.R. Ramachandran, presenting a pair of spectacles to a student in Virudhunagar on Friday. The Special Secretary, Health and Family Welfare, P.W.C. Davidar (right), looks on. —
VIRUDHUNAGAR: The Health Minister, K.K.S.S.R. Ramachandran, launched a pilot project to prevent cardiovascular diseases in Virudhunagar and Sivaganga districts here on Friday. The Minister said that people invited most of the diseases through their lifestyle and food habits. The two-year project would find out the areas where heart diseases were prevalent and the reasons behind it. Based on the experience from the pilot study, the programme would be expanded all over the State, he said. The Special Secretary, Health and Family Welfare, P.W.C. Davidar, said that over eight lakh people above 30 years of age in Virudhunagar and five lakh in Sivaganga districts would be screened for heart diseases at 18 Government Hospitals and 80 Primary Health Centres (PHCs). Prime indicators
They would be screened for hypertension and body mass index, the prime indicators for heart ailments, and counselling would be done for prevention. Special training would be given to health officials and all other staff to mobilise people for the screening programme, he added. The project would find out cost-effective models of community based and clinic based non-communicable disease controls which would be suitable for implementation across the State. The Tamil Nadu Health Systems Project envisages specific interventions to reduce exposure to risk factors such as usage of tobacco and smoking, obesity, and to increase physical fitness through regular exercise and increased consumption of healthful diet. Student participation
Students of 50 select schools in the districts would be involved in behaviour change communication, wherein awareness of the evils of smoking and using tobacco at a young age would be imparted. The Gandhigram Institute of Rural Health and Family Welfare Trust would be involved in creating awareness. Mr. Davidar said that all hospitals would have new buildings and older ones renovated in Pudukottai, Krishnagiri, Dharmapuri, Theni and Kanyakumari districts at a cost of Rs. 230 crore. The Director of Public Health, P. Padmanaban said that 17 per cent of urban and 10 per cent of rural pregnant women were found to have diabetes in a recent study. The Director of Medical Services, Bava Fakrudeen, said that fast food culture and obesity were major causes of heart diseases. The District Collector (in-charge), S. Malarvizhi, said that the Health Minister had instructed the Health Department officials to improve hygiene at the Government hospital here.
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