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other fields and offered a platform on which to foster intellectual fellowship amongst all stakeholders. Most importantly the conference shaped up as an instrument of global advances in healthcare.
The inaugural ceremony was attended by Mr J P Nadda, Union Minister for Health & Family Welfare who was the Chief Guest on the occasion while the Guests of Honour were Dr( Prof.) Jagdish Prasad, DGHS, MoHFW and Dr Soumya Swaminathan, Director General, ICMR. The ceremony was presided over by Dr S B Mujumdar, Founder & President, Symbiosis & Chancellor, SIU. Dr Vidya Yeravdekar, Principal Director, Symbiosis, Dr. Rajani Gupte, Vice Chancellor, SIU, Dr Rajiv Yeravdekar, Dean, Faculty of Health & Biomedical Sciences, SIU & Deans from all faculties of Symbiosis
Mr Nadda addressed the audience by mentioning that he is delighted and honoured to meet Dr S B Mujumdar. He spoke on his vision of making health as universal and affordable for all. The previous health policy was disease-centric. Whereas the current policy is a preventive and promotive policy. The new policy will take us from Rog to Nirog. Mr Nadda further added that the current policy is comprehensive, holistic and interdisciplinary in nature taking into consideration geriatric, palliative and rehabilitative. He went on to stress the point there is a need to reduce pollution both outside, at home and at work place.
Dr Soumya Swaminathan, Director General, ICMR expressed her views on how there has been a paradigm shift from infectious diseases to non-communicable disease. She mentioned that as per statistics, 55 percent of Indian diseased population is affected by the non-communicable disease. She further spoke that suicide is the number one cause of death amongst today’ s youth.
She explained that initiatives by Government such as Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana initiated by the Ministry of Petroleum provides LPG lines to 55 percent of Indian families, thus contributing towards pollution control which is one of the commonest risk factor seen in India.
Dr S B Mujumdar mentioned that Symbiosis as a unique university as this University was born out of the concept of universal brotherhood for the welfare of international students. He suggested health minister to revive the old family doctor system and provide a bridge course to all nurses to become Physician.
Day 1: Various critical aspects related to healthcare including economics, law, communication
The day one of the international conference began with two parallel tracks. Dr K. Srinath Reddy, President, Public Health Foundation of India( PHFI), being the chairperson for Track 1, gave an overview of
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