Friday, 25 May 2012

Swine Flu awarness programme

“The Family Clinic”-Gujarat State Family Physicians` Forum and Ahmedabad Medical Association has launched a public awareness campaign from Sunday, 16th August at all major public places of Ahmedabad about recent outbreak of HINI Influenza going on in our country.
The idea is to educate public, remove there fear and impart them with scientific knowledge about the subject.
About a team of 25 family physicians of city will interact with public regarding this disease. At different places.
On first day of programme on Sunday, the doctors have visited this many places and about total 1500-2000 people get informed about the current situation. The places visited were
1. Parimal garden
2. Prahaladnagar Garden
3. Ankur Garden, Naranpura
4. Pragatinagar Garden-132ft ring road
5. Uttam Nagar Garden-Maninagar
6. Pushpakunj-Kankaria
7. Auda Garden-Satadhar, Nr.Sun n step club
8. Senior Citizen Club-Chandkheda.
There were concerned students who were studying outside Gujarat; Business mans who are frequent travelers, senior citizens, mothers who were apprehensive and concerned about the situation. We have provided them the latest outbreak situation, teach preventive measures like hand hygiene and cough etiquette etc, dispel their myths.
In the coming days, the places that we will be going are,
1. Law Garden
2. Vastrapur Lake Garden
3. ONGC Ground-chandkheda
4. Maniyasha-Maninagar East.
5. Atira-Nr.IIM, satellite
6. Cept university
The family clinics doctors will be visiting different schools in nearby and educate students and staff about this H1N1 influenza outbreak.
We are also distributing pamphlets to patients who are visiting about 70 family clinics across Ahmedabad.We are planning to distribute about 5 lakh pamphlets for public awareness. The family clinic as known is   recently launched in Ahmedabad is a chain of family physician’s clinics run by qualified allopathic doctors, under  a common brand name “The Family Clinic”-under the banner of Gujarat State Family Physician’s Forum

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