Monday, January 19, 2015

Free Diabetes Care for Poor Senior citizens - The New Indian Express

Free Diabetes Care for Poor Senior citizens
By Express News Service Published: 19th January 2015 06:00 AM Last Updated: 19th January 2015 05:06 AM
CHENNAI: Soon, volunteers and staff from the MV Hospital for Diabetes will be conducting door-to-door visits in the city's slums and underprivileged tenements to detect and administer care for elderly diabetics.

Announcing the initiative on Sunday, MV's Chief Diabetologist Dr Vijay Viswanathan said that there were plenty of people who had podiatric, kidney and even Tuberculosis issues that were related to diabetes. The service will be free of charge for people aged over 65.

At a programme held to celebrate 10 years of the hospital being a collaborating centre for WHO Research and Analysis, Dr Viswanathan said, "In a decade of its appointment as the centre for research, education and training in Diabetes by WHO Geneva, MV Hospital for Diabetes, Royapuram has been conducting various research activities on prevention and identification of predictors of diabetes and its complication." Health Secretary Dr J Radhakrishnan felicitated the diabetologist and lauded the initiatives launched by them to combat the burden of diabetes.

Additionally, the Professor M Viswanathan DRC Gold Medal Oration was delivered by NIRT Director Sowmya Swaminathan.

Friday, January 2, 2015

Group of elderly get free Metro ride to museum - India Gazette

Group of elderly get free Metro ride to museum
India Gazette (IANS) Thursday 1st January, 2015
Twenty senior citizens were Wednesday given a free Metro ride and also taken on a tour of the Metro Museum on the occasion of the museum's sixth anniversary.
The Metro Museum, located inside the Patel Chowk Metro station, was opened to visitors Dec 31, 2008.
"A group of 20 senior citizens associated with the NGO, Sehyog Vikas Samiti, Badarpur, was invited to the Metro Museum on the occasion of its sixth anniversary. These senior citizens were brought by Metro from Tughlakabad and taken on a tour of the museum," a Delhi Metro statement said.
The statement added that some of the elderly had never boarded the Metro earlier.
On the occasion, a new exhibit showing a standard gauge train model coming out of an elevated Metro station was also unveiled.
"This new exhibit is expected to be a great attraction for the visitors to the museum. A hand crafted standard gauge train model and new models of toy trains were also unveiled," the statement added.
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