Over One Lakh Visit Health Mela 30,000 have checkups

New Delhi, Wednesday 7th October: Around one lakh persons, including a large number of students, have already visited the ongoing MTNL Perfect Health Mela 2009 organized by Heart Care Foundation of India (HCFI) in association with various government and non governmental bodies at Laxmi Bai Nagar.

Mela President, Dr K K Aggarwal, said that free heath checkups were arranged at the Mela premises where blood pressure, ECG, echocardiography and eye examinations were held. Over 30,000 people have so far benefited from the checkups. Free medical counselling and consultation were also provided by doctors to the public who have been coming from all over the city.

It was observed that high blood pressure, high cholesterol, hypothyroidism are quite rampant in the city and need immediate medical attention. It is distressing that around 50% of the people were either not aware about their diseases or the diseases were not fully controlled, though people got the misconception that their disease is already contained, with the result that they stopped medication and the disease returned with greater ferocity.

Obesity was also found very common. People were told that the waistline should not be more than 40inches in case of men and 36 inches in case of women. “Longer the waist line shorter the lifeline”, said Dr Aggarwal.

Free hemoglobin tests taken at the Mela by LIONS District 321A1 revealed that large number of the people were anaemic. Free blood grouping of the people was also taken.

It is noteworthy that there were also free OPD consultations pertaining to allopathic, homeopathy, unani, ayurveda, and naturopathy.

Certain measures to reduce weight were also given. Any vegetable which is green in colour like karela, neem, bhel is helpful in reducing the weight and any eatable which can be broken into two equal parts like pulses and rajma if taken after boiling will be helpful in reducing gas.

The visiting public was told to discourage the consumption of junk and unnatural fast foods. Uncontrolled and indiscriminate use of food additives may also pose health hazards. The basic guidelines still remain to prefer a food which is more near natural, seasonal and fresh. In fact, anything which is refined is unnatural and may be unhealthy, Dr Aggarwal added.

Cardiologists visit mela
Dr. Kartikeya Bhargava, Dr. Balbir Singh, Dr Sudhir Tyagi and Dr R P Vashishta visited the mela. Noted singer Pankaj Jeswani was the special guest. The experts said that sudden death is reversible and predictable.

Sahitya Kala Academy performs

SKP gave a lively performance at the mela with folk dances.