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Honoured: Governor Surjit Singh Barnala presenting a citation to B.P.Jain, president of B.P.Jain Hospital, in Pammal on Friday. — TAMBARAM: Creating awareness of healthcare and the intake of balanced food and daily exercise, especially among the youth and children living in urban areas, should be done on a war footing, Governor Surjeet Singh Barnala said on Friday. After inaugurating a cardio surgical theatre at B.P.Jain Hospital in Pammal, Mr. Barnala said incidents of diabetes, cancer and heart diseases were on the rise and people should take to healthy habits, hygiene and proper exercise to have good health. “Developing health consciousness among the people is necessary,” he said. Health programmes were an integral part of the Central and State governments’ agenda and hospitals were being modernised with latest medical equipment. Specialists were being appointed to treat the poor and needy. Heart and cardiovascular diseases killed 50 million people around the world and 32 million of them belonged to developing countries. “Indians are likely to constitute 60 per cent of the world’s cardiac patients by 2010,” Mr. Barnala said. Heart diseases were on the rise in developing countries. Treatment and cardiac surgeries were expensive, which should be provided at an affordable cost, he said. Though the government was taking ample measures to provide facilities to treat the poor and needy, a helping hand was needed from voluntary organisations, some of whom had done commendable service by tying up with hospitals to perform cardiac and eye surgeries free of cost. Appealing to voluntary organisations to join the government in the mission of creating awareness of healthcare, Mr. Barnala said regular health and cardiac screening camps should be conducted. Dieticians should educate people about proper nutrition, particularly on specific dietary needs to be followed for persons with cardiac problems, diabetes and hypertension. The Governor also presented a citation to B.P.Jain, president of the hospital. He was given the Seva Rathna award for 2008 by Pammal residents and the citation was part of it. P.T.Prabhakar, past District Governor of Rotary International and Pammal Municipal Chairman V.Karunanidhi also spoke.
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