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A Very Special Visit to School Students in a Remote Area
- The Department of Community Medicine of Index Medical College keeps organizing Health Education Campaign & welfare activities in various villages & schools on regular basis. On 12th October 2018, the faculty members of the Department along with PGs, Interns & UG Students planned to visit a Govt. School in a remote rural village name Khandel. The local leaders of the village & school authorities were contacted a week in advance & felt need of the students was analyzed & noted.
- The institute had some left over amount of Ganesh puja held recently. So, the students of 6th semester decided to buy certain useful day to day items for students & distribute among them.
- In view of the above, it was a special visit to this school. The department incorporated activities pertaining to health education, nutrition education by students. The Community Medicine department of Index Medical College organized a health talk followed by distribution of essentials for the government school students of Khandel.
- The activities commenced with Cleaning of school premises, classes, play ground and surrounding by MBBS students along with school students.
- Health talk were delivered by MBBS students of 6th semester on:-
- Personal hygiene
- Diarrheal disease & ORS
- Open field defecation
- Nutrition & balance diet
- Mosquito born infections
- Health talk was followed by distribution of essential items like –Tooth paste, tooth brush, soaps, footwear, stationary items like pens, pencils, copies, coloring kits, Teaching materials like Books, educational charts, maps, dictionary, Grammar books, sports items like badminton, footballs, carom board, chess, skipping ropes, balls, edibles like fruits, chocolates etc by the MBBS students.
- The event was fully supported by Professor and Head Dr (Col) V.K. Arora, Dr H.M. Dabhi, Dr Jayashri Bute, Dr Aarti, Dr Sangeeta, Dr. Rashmi & Dr Saumitra Sinha of Community Medicine Department.
- Activities were appreciated by local leaders, school principle and teachers. School students enjoyed the session a lot. They seemed very much motivated and excited by the event.