I was albe to attend the inauguration of the Alpha clinic at the Christian Medical College Vellore, two weeks back, which is a new facility deliberately created to attend to the needs of the local community resident at Vellore.
The highlight of this facility is that consultants offer voluntarily to be available in this clinic when they are free. This gives them an opportunity to offer more personalised care to those who would need regular consultations. This is a patent friendly ambience when consultants would have time to offer holistic health care.
One special need is to offer life style changes to people who have non- communicable diseases. We are almost in an alarming situation of more younger people being diagnosed with coronary heart diseases, hypertension, Diabetes, psycho-somatic illness, sleep disorders, anxiety state, etc. All of these have a direct association with stressful life style.
Health care is acquiring a new dimension of monitoring and modifying the life style of people. This is true for children as well. This would call for modifying diet, including physical exercise in the daily rhythm, ensuring minimum sleep, avoiding substances which are addictive, living emotionally well and engaging in leisure time activities and hobbies.
How can we make life style change education more popular! It is as crucial as immunisation for children to prevent some illnesses.
One way is for us to form life style groups who would come together once a month to help each other in changing practices and adopting new ways of living.
M.C.Mathew(text and photo)
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