NE HEALTH BUREAU
HYDERABAD, AUG 1
Stating that calculating currency not but calculating the calories is very important, Telangana Governor Dr Tamilisai Soundararajan on Tuesday said parents ought to give nutritious home cooked food to children. All schools ought to have toilet facility for girls to curtail their drop-out rate and doctors must pay more attention to women’s diseases as they outnumber men in several ailments beyohttps://twitter.com/DrTamilisaiGuv/status/1686420254183047168?s=20nd just reproductive health, she reiterated.
Round Table on ''women Health Policy"with 25 eminent Dr's Org by Foundation for futuristic cities President @KarunaGopal1 Hon'ble Governor Telangana @DrTamilisaiGuv as Chief Guest at Rajbhavan today pic.twitter.com/o15AjG3nkL
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The Governor, a gynaecologist by profession, held a roundtable on women’s health attended by experts across cardiology, gynecology, psychiatry, and from various forms and specialties of medicine.
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She said apart from reproductive care, women exceed men in kidney diseases, heart ailments, gastric issues, orthopedics and more. “We must concentrate on this,” she stressed.
“I wanted to host this roundtable conference at Raj Bhavan as I felt it’s very important for us all in the medical fraternity to provide our point of view and give very practical recommendations with the experience and exposure all the doctors present today have,’’ she said.
While referring to one of the delegates Dr Shantha Kumari, the governor said, the senior doctors have more role to play not only in evolving women-friendly health policies and ensure strict implementation by improving rural and urban healthcare access.
She also said, “I am very happy that Raj Bhavan is more productive and proactive.”
“Even after 75 years of Independence, we have yet to come to a conclusion on the health needs of the women. Most of the policy makers and public health professionals say there is no proper data or statistics on other diseases suffered by women due to various socio-economic and cultural factors, where women give themselves less priority when it comes to their own health. This situation has to be improved, if we want to create overall wellbeing of women marching towards Ayushman Bharath,’’ she said.
Dr Soundararajan recommended focus on physical and mental well-being of women and girls via exercise, nutrition, and yoga from childhood. She suggested special women’s ICUs in rural hospitals and more mobile health units in remote rural and tribal areas.
For changing the health seeking behavior of the women we have to create more awareness on the health services provided by the govt., and should also improve the accessibility of services in rural and urban areas by operating mobile medical units.
According to the governor, when she was practicing she observed that there was more number of boy’s data than girls in the OP. On her personal enquiry of OP registry and staff she found out, due to gender disparity girls have does not get any priority by their families and they are brought to the hospital, when they are very sick. She also highlighted the reason for girls drop out from school due to lack of toilets.
She mentioned on a visit to a school time back, she wanted to check the tiffin boxes of the children to know, what kind of food children are given by their parents. I was very astonished to find that most of the boxes had burgers, chips, puffs, biscuits and snacks from outside. There was no home food at all. She said calculating currency not but calculating the calories is very important. She appealed to the parents to take utmost care in proving nutritious and home food.
She also recommended that families should prioritise the women health and always allocate separate budget for them.
A delegation from various specialties, secretary to the Governor K Surendra Mohan, and Joint Secretaries were participated in the roundtable.
