Health Awareness among men over forty years of age, meet by Sugam Charity

Sugam Charity Health Awareness meeting 2 on 11th of April 2010

Following the successful meet organized for women over forty on the 13th feb 2010, Sugam Charity organized the second meet for gents over the age of forty years. The aim of the meeting was to spread the awareness of life style diseases which are rife in this age group.

The format of the meet is to give awareness talk to spread the knowledge and to provide an individual assessment of these people. This is different to the master health check up though one part of it is based on the master health check up as described below.

Master Health Check up is now given as a standard to most corporate employees as part of their corporate social responsibility. The corporate bodies also take up this role to ensure they have healthy employees who in turn will take less sick leave and increase their productivity.

However this type of check up is not given to the people in the villages, one due to the lack of model of someone giving them the option of health check up as corporate bodies. but it is mainly due to the lack of awareness. sporadically the Sons and Daughters who are working in cities bring their kith and kin for these health check up, however the common man misses out.

This type of health check up can bring up the problems, hopefully at an earlier stage so that the treatment can be effective. It would also ensure people with risk factors are advised accordingly so that life style diseases do not affect them in the future.

The second part of this activity is where the charity wants to concentrate. Spreading the awareness by giving them not only their health information but also with an interactive forum at their doorstep.

This has been made very much possible by the talks given by the doctors and more importantly by the Nursing School Principal of KMC, Trichy and her Team. We at Sugam Charity cannot thank them enough as they do this on a sunday when most of us would rather spend relaxing at home. We also thank the Management of the KMC and KMC speciality hospitals for allowing us to use their team the education materials for this public exercise activity.

We at Sugam Charity hope that we have done some good to these people, only time can tell us so.

Regards

Chockalingam

Sugam Charity and health awareness camp at Thatchankurichi, a village in South India

27th of February 2011

As part of our health awareness campaign from the charity we conducted this camp at Thatchankurichi a village in Tamil Nadu, South India. At the outset, i would like to thank the volunteers from the village without their help this would not have materialised. We would also like to thank the School Headmaster, The District Educational Officer and the Collector who have agreed for this camp to be conducted.

KMC and KMC Speciality Hospital provided their technical expertise of the Nursing School Prinicipal and the senior Nurses and their team. they worked hard over the entire session without any break. The doctors were again Dr Rajarathinam, Dr Mathimaraiselvan, Dr Geetha Ravi who worked for nothing at the end of the day, and in fact leaving their work commitments for the charitable work.

There was no treatment given at this site of the camp and no free medication were distributed. The aim of the camp to identify the problems and give free advice.

i am attaching couple of photos

with regards

Chockalingam

"Invest health for your loved ones"

When i had the book given to me by one of our good friends at the hospital i work, it helped me greatly. i will elaborate on the book itself in another blog. The book opened up my thoughts and creativity quite a bit. Then, when i saw the mother of a cardiologist who was morbidly obese coming for a knee replacement with the associated risks, the thoughts started flowing to this subject of "Money and Health, the conundrum"

This blog is the continuation of the blog and if you have not read my earlier blog please go and read and continue>

How to combine money which is so well associated with comforts and health which is so associated with well being? Being healthy would enable one to enjoy the money and its comforts.

Saving money when you need to spend the money is one of the models i have been following since 1993. Saving money when you spend time for a good cause is a concept i had been exposed to when i started doing the charity walk for the cancer in UK.

is a new conceptWe at Sugam Charity thought of a model when one can save money for the time you spend for being healthy! after many trials, the model which we have come up with are the following. one can choose the method one wants depending on his circumstances.

1. Save money in a separate account or pot for the time you spend exercising for example. this could be pounds/dollars/rupees for the time you spend on trying to become healthy. Use this pot as exclusive pot for spending later when you want to have comforts like buying your hi tech headphones for example.

2. Save money for your loved ones when they do exercise is gifting someone money when they spend time for their health. one may say i do not have anyone whom i would like to see them healthy! or do not want to save money for someone else!

3. Spend time for your loved ones to become healthy for them to be able to spend time with you longer in the longer run is even better. this would be for you to exercise more for your loved ones as much as for yourselves. Quantfication can be in the form of money which you can save for them or for yourselves!

Think about these options and start using them in your life. i know few who have started already.

Hang on, it is time for me to exercise! no for work!!!!!!. The anaesthetist has anaesthetised my patient for surgery and the patient is waiting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Regards

Chockalingam

Dental Camp at our school at Sreenivasapuram, Lalgudi

The Sugam Charity organised a dental camp with the help of Dr Iyyappan Shankar and his team from Dencity at KMC Speciality hospital and Dr Navarasu Dental Surgeon from Poovalur. The supporting volunteers were C Rajamanickam, Mrs Maragatham,chockalingam, Rajamanickam friend and his family. there was a hiccup with tamil nadu electricity board supply with unexpected stoppage of electricity. Generator was organised by Gandhimathinathan with his friend and the camp presentation started. there was a presentation by the dentists on how to care for the teeth to the children and their parents. dental check up was done for over ninety children, most of them underprivileged. a comprehensive assessment and advice was given. it was nice to see young dentists enjoying themselves in this cause of health education and awareness. please note that i am not calling this as service as i do not think it as a free service, rather it is the duty of everyone.

Charity work in Bangalore

Dear Everyone, i had a chance to partake in a charitable event in Bangalore. we were more than fifteen consultant surgeons from UK and India. we did consultation and operated on more than seventy quite disabled and socially disadvantaged children from different parts of Karnataka and Adjacent states. the experience was moving even for me who deals with patients with problems. some of the operations we did were quite complex and not done routinely in India. hence it needed the expertise of people from UK

I will post some photos soon

It gave inspiration to us who are already involved in charitable event.
visit www.sugamcharity.org

we need to mobilise money and people if we want to progress in the work we already do

comments please

Sugam Charitable Trust first Medical Camp

The first medical camp we organised went very well. the target patient population group were ladies above the age of 40. we assessed over 84 ladies and we finished in one day. four doctors were involved, along with the back up of senior nurses and junior well trained nurses with countless number of volunteers. the special mention goes to the volunteers without which this camp would have gone nowhere.

the KMC group did their work with a smiling face, not showing the tiredness which was unavoidable given the scale of the work. the ladies to whom the service did not show unhappiness when made to wait for their turn. Ms Kalavathi did public awareness with a powerpoint presentation made possible only with Saravnan's expertise after initial hiccup was due to the laptop. dont trust the computer ever, keep someone like saravanan on your side on a given day!

Sasi and the troop gave refreshments along the way on a tiring day

Sugam Charitable trust well done!!!!

the senior doctors Dr Rajarathinam and Dr Mathimaraiselvan started off the proceedings with a little talk and the invited doctor Dr Geetha Ravi did not blink her eyelid until the work was done. Thank you Dr Geetha Ravi

Last but not the least is the food organised for the people who made this camp possible. it was simply excellent and delicious. Thanks to Sugam Charity administration for organising the cook and thank you The Chef, we will call you again.

next camp on april 2010

Sugam Charitable Trust and more health web sites

Dear Everyone, we have now conducted quite a few successful clinics under The Sugam Charitable Trust. We are now advising over twenty five patients per month. Where there is a need for specialist opinion, we are advising them of the need to.

We are keen to do more work on the charitable front. but we need clear directions. we have focused on the health education to the public in the form of newsletters and printed information. i am also in the process of passing on the important health information web links

please find such useful and regulated links

Sugam charitable trust http://www.sugam.org/sugamui/pages/Home.aspx

low back pain exercises http://orthoinfo.aaos.org/topic.cfm?topic=A00302

flexibility exercises http://orthoinfo.aaos.org/topic.cfm?topic=A00310&return_link=0