Health Minister J P Nadda has stressed the need to aggressively focus on adolescents and youth to educate them on perils of lifestyle diseases. Addressing the World Health Day function in New Delhi today, Mr Nadda said, awareness is necessary to keep the disease away as prevention is better than cure. <br/><br/>He said, diabetes is not only a disease but an invitation to various other diseases. Speaking on the occasion, Director General of Health Services Jagdish Prasad said, in India 60 Million people are diabetic and half of them are unaware and untreated. He said, economic burden of lifestyle diseases are huge. <br/><br/>On the occasion, Mr Nadda released Swasthya Bharat Mobile App, Anmol tablet for Axulary Nurse and Mid-wives, E-Raktkosh, Guidelines for dialysis centres and WHO and ICMR report on Diabetes. E-Raktkosh will enable information of the nearest blood bank on a mobile and availability of the particular blood group in a given radius. ANMOL tablet will give huge boost to improve health services in India.
News On AIR | April 7, 2016 1:50 PM
Nadda stresses on need to educate adolescents, youth on lifestyle diseases