Non-Communicable Diseases account for 66 pc of deaths in India
India is currently facing an unprecedented rise in Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) accounting for over 66 per cent of all deaths across the nation.
Indira Gandhi Medical College, Shimla Professor of department Medicine Dr Jatinder Kumar Mokta (in photo) has been conferred with the prestigious ‘American College of Physicians Oscar E Edward’s Memorial Award’ for 2018-19.
He was felicitated with the award recently at New Orleans, Louisiana, USA for rendering voluntary health services in the remote areas of Himachal Pradesh including tribal districts of Kinnaur and Lahaul-Spiti.
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This has made him the first Indian to receive this award for volunteerism.
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Mokta in the last 10 years has conducted 42 health awareness camps during which 2000 patients have been screened and treated for chronic diseases that include hypertension, diabetes Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases (COPD) and asthma.
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India is currently facing an unprecedented rise in Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) accounting for over 66 per cent of all deaths across the nation.
A team of scientists has developed a new method of scanning lungs that is able to show the effects of treatment on lung function in real time, enabling them to see the functioning of transplanted lungs.
Even as air quality in the national capital fell to the ‘very poor’ category, city doctors on Tuesday reported a 30 per cent surge in respiratory diseases like asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
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