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A unique Father's Day gift
Staff Reporter
Bangalore:
This Father's Day, instead of buying those expensive greeting cards and gifts, you can do something more special for your father. You can help your father get more information on heart disease and its prevention.
The Wockhardt Hospital and Heart Institute will launch a unique initiative on Sunday, called Wockhardt Father's Heart Network, on the occasion of Father's Day.
Under this programme, children can pick up a card from any of the Wockhardt hospitals and enrol their fathers in this network free of cost. Once enrolled, the fathers will receive literature and regular updates from Wockhardt on the do's and don'ts to prevent and reduce the risk of cardiovascular diseases.
Vishal Bali, Vice-President, Wockhardt Hospitals, told presspersons here on Saturday that the initiative will be launched in Wockhardt hospitals across the country. On Sunday, a float will go around the city giving information on the initiative and cards will be distributed among children. The children can pick up cards at the Baptist Hospital, Ravi Kirloskar Hospital, and Garden City Hospital all through next week. "We will also distribute the cards in the schools. All that the children have to do is pick up the cards and get the response sheet filled and dropped at our hospitals," he said.
According to a study conducted by the Wockhardt hospitals, of more than 10,000 patients who underwent heart surgery in 1990, the average age of men who underwent surgery was 64 years and in 2004, the average had reduced to 56 years, said Ranganath Nayak, Interventional Cardiologist at the Wockhardt Heart Institute.
Smoking was the biggest risk factor and 60 per cent of heart diseases in men is related to lifestyle, he said.
He said that men suffer heart attacks at least 10 years before women and therefore are at higher risk of developing heart disease at a younger age.
For details about the initiative, call 51994444, 22261037.
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