Tuesday 23 / April / 2024
Muscat: Badr Al Samaa Hospital Ruwi organised a free medical screening camp on World Heart Day on its premises recently.
This year’s World Heart Day urges people to take action to keep their hearts and those of the people they care about healthy and make a lasting difference to their health and public health. This World Heart Day also urges the public to focus on creating heart-healthy environments. By ensuring that people are able to make heart-healthy choices wherever they live, work and play, it encourages people to reduce cardiovascular risk and promotes a heart-healthy planet for those around them.
Around 250 people attended the camp and the attendees were encouraged to take a pledge to improve their heart health. Participants were facilitated with free cardiology consultation, random blood sugar; blood pressure, and total cholesterol checks and ECG as per doctor’s advice. People who were diagnosed to have some complications were referred for further cardiological evaluation. Moreover, the medical expert guided the patients about the preventive measures they could adopt against heart disease. Dr G. Nagaraju, cardiologist - Badr Al Samaa Hospital, Ruwi conducted the heart health awareness and screening camp.
“Regular exercise, healthy food habits, cutting down on alcohol and stopping smoking can improve your health and your overall well-being,” said Dr Benny Panakkal, Senior Consultant and Interventional Cardiologist and Group Medical Director, Badr Al Samaa Hospital, Ruwi.
World Heart Day is a truly global event that sees individuals, families, communities, organisations and governments around the world take part in activities to take charge of their heart health and that of others. It has the power to unite people from all countries and backgrounds in the fight against the cardiovascular disease burden and inspires and drives international action to encourage heart-healthy living across the world.
