Scaling new heights in healthcare
By Bappa Majumdar
Two events in the past one month, one bigger than the other in its own way reminded me of an old cliche :Where there is a will, there is a way".
The Diabetes Blue Fortnight and the Child Health Congress were two big events that took New Delhi by storm and left all sceptics bemused and the strongest critics awestruck.
The Diabetes Blue Fortnight saw huge successful campaigns from November 1 in association with the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and other like-minded partners. If it kicked off on a small note with a radio camapign and a simple ceremony, within days Delhites were talking about diabetes and I even overheard a few talking about the need to wear blue and unite against the disease on November 14.
The Archaelogical Survey of India promised to lit some historical buildings in blue, while hotels, embassies all chipped in with their support for the cause. The move had paid off and Delhi took the challenge to unite against the silent killer and tell the world that "YES WE CAN".
Soon we had confirmation from Kolkata, Hyderabad and Bangalore. All were liighting important buildings in blue and joining HEAL Foundation's campaign. A dream which started in a small drawing room in HEAL's office a few days ago was slowly but surely taking a concrete shape.
The frenzy of 7,000 plus children forming the world's largest human ring the next day at the grounds of India Expo Centre and Mart in Greater Noida, even surpirsed Shri Ghulam Nabi Azad, the Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare, who said India's ambitious diabetes screening programme had actually kicked off from the very venue.
While thousands greeted it with joy and thunderous clappings, I stood there in a corner and told myself... WE HAVE DONE IT.
That was not all, because over the next few hours, the scientific sessions and discussions over child health during the first-ever comprehensive Child Health Congress 2010, reaffirmed my views and perhaps everyone in HEAL Foundation that "YES WE CAN".
This, mind you were not the only events that HEAL organised and executed, !!! In fact, it is the culmination of several years of hardwork involving policy makers, governments and experts to come togeher and chalk out a strategy to take healthcare issues head on. To give shape to new policies and ensure that the next generation can live in a disease free India.
HEAL Foundation with its dedication, its work, in fact quality work, which takes them way way ahead of the others, has taken off in a big way and new doors have opened, new challenges have confronted us, new mountains have to be climbed...But will we all be able to scale new heights and make a huge difference in the coming years is the question that comes to my mind ??
Two events in the past one month, one bigger than the other in its own way reminded me of an old cliche :Where there is a will, there is a way".
The Diabetes Blue Fortnight and the Child Health Congress were two big events that took New Delhi by storm and left all sceptics bemused and the strongest critics awestruck.
The Diabetes Blue Fortnight saw huge successful campaigns from November 1 in association with the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and other like-minded partners. If it kicked off on a small note with a radio camapign and a simple ceremony, within days Delhites were talking about diabetes and I even overheard a few talking about the need to wear blue and unite against the disease on November 14.
The Archaelogical Survey of India promised to lit some historical buildings in blue, while hotels, embassies all chipped in with their support for the cause. The move had paid off and Delhi took the challenge to unite against the silent killer and tell the world that "YES WE CAN".
Soon we had confirmation from Kolkata, Hyderabad and Bangalore. All were liighting important buildings in blue and joining HEAL Foundation's campaign. A dream which started in a small drawing room in HEAL's office a few days ago was slowly but surely taking a concrete shape.
The frenzy of 7,000 plus children forming the world's largest human ring the next day at the grounds of India Expo Centre and Mart in Greater Noida, even surpirsed Shri Ghulam Nabi Azad, the Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare, who said India's ambitious diabetes screening programme had actually kicked off from the very venue.
While thousands greeted it with joy and thunderous clappings, I stood there in a corner and told myself... WE HAVE DONE IT.
That was not all, because over the next few hours, the scientific sessions and discussions over child health during the first-ever comprehensive Child Health Congress 2010, reaffirmed my views and perhaps everyone in HEAL Foundation that "YES WE CAN".
This, mind you were not the only events that HEAL organised and executed, !!! In fact, it is the culmination of several years of hardwork involving policy makers, governments and experts to come togeher and chalk out a strategy to take healthcare issues head on. To give shape to new policies and ensure that the next generation can live in a disease free India.
HEAL Foundation with its dedication, its work, in fact quality work, which takes them way way ahead of the others, has taken off in a big way and new doors have opened, new challenges have confronted us, new mountains have to be climbed...But will we all be able to scale new heights and make a huge difference in the coming years is the question that comes to my mind ??
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