IMA Medical Students Network Goa 2017-18

14/11/2017

14th NOVEMBER: WORLD DIABETES DAY

World Diabetes Day is the world’s largest diabetes awareness campaign reaching a global audience of over 1 billion people in more than 160 countries.

It was created in 1991 by IDF and the World Health Organization and became an official United Nations Day in 2006.

The campaign is represented by a blue circle logo. It is the global symbol for diabetes awareness. It signifies the unity of the global diabetes community in response to the diabetes epidemic.

The theme for WDD 2017 is "WOMEN AND DIABETES"

The World Diabetes Day 2017 campaign will promote the importance of affordable and equitable access for all women at risk for or living with diabetes to the essential diabetes medicines and technologies, self-management education and information they require to achieve optimal diabetes outcomes and strengthen their capacity to prevent type 2 diabetes.

Let us stand for women's rights to a healthy future!

24/10/2017

Today is World Polio Day. 30 years ago, polio paralyzed more than 350,000 children each year around the world.
Today, it has been reduced by more than 99.9%. We are committed to end polio!

Via World Health Organization (WHO) with UNICEF

21/10/2017

15th October - 21st October: Global Hand washing Week.

The students of IMA MSN along with the Hospital Infections Control Committee celebrated Global Hand washing Week by creating awareness about the importance of the correct hand washing technique. The target groups were patients visiting the Pediatrics, Gynecology, Medicine and Ophthalmology OPD and wards. The hospital staff including nursing students and attendants were sensitized about the importance of hand washing.

15/10/2017

15th OCTOBER - GLOBAL HANDWASHING DAY.
Global Handwashing Day is an annual global advocacy day dedicated to increasing awareness and understanding about the importance of handwashing with soap as an easy, effective, and affordable way to prevent diseases and save lives.

The 2017 Global Handwashing Day theme is “Our hands, our future!”. This theme reminds us that handwashing protects our own health, and also allows us to build our own futures, as well as those of our communities, and the world. Promoting the benefits and practice of handwashing with soap, as well as fostering access to and improving hygiene facilities, will help us work towards a healthier future.

No matter what your role is, you can celebrate Global Handwashing Day.
This year, IMA MSN together with Hospital Infection Control Committee, Goa Medical College are celebrating Global Handwashing Week commencing from 15th-21st October. Our aim is to educate and create awareness among the hospital staff and patients about Why, When and How handwashing can help us live healthier lives and prevent a number of communicable diseases. This campaign is a part of Swach Bharat initiative and will be called "HAATH MEIN HAI VISHWAS".

01/10/2017

1st October - International Day of Older Persons

The IMA Medical Students Network celebrated International Day of Older Persons by visiting an old age home, Missionaries of Charity in Carambolim.
A small programme was conducted for the residents of the old age home, which included singing songs and audio-videography. The residents were also given snacks and had heartfelt conversations with the students.

28/09/2017

Today, 28 September is World Rabies Day.
It is celebrated annually to raise awareness about rabies prevention and to highlight progress in defeating this horrifying disease.

28 September also marks the anniversary of Louis Pasteur's death, the French chemist and microbiologist, who developed the first rabies vaccine.

Rabies is a preventable viral disease of mammals most often transmitted through the bite of a rabid animal. The rabies virus infects the central nervous system, ultimately causing disease in the brain and death.

✔️2017 – Zero by 30✔️

World Rabies Day 2017 marks the announcement of the biggest global anti-rabies initiative.

Today, the World Health Organization, the World Organisation for Animal Health, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the Global Alliance for Rabies Control will reveal an ambitious plan to end human deaths from dog-transmitted rabies by 2030.
Read press release: http://www.who.int/entity/neglected_diseases/news/WRD_2017_Press_release/en

Although rabies is a 100% fatal disease, it is also 100% preventable. So celebrate World Rabies Day by vaccinating your dog or cat at the nearest clinics.
Pledge to Educate, Vaccinate and Eliminate.

23/09/2017

The IMA Medical Students Network of Goa Medical College, conducted a small programme in order to commemorate World Alzheimer's Day (21st September).The Programme was titled 'Cinématographique Démence'- Learning Dementia Through Films. Dr Amit Dias, Lecturer of the Department Of Preventive and Social Medicine, Goa Medical College and Founder Secretary of the Dementia Society of Goa, played 4 short films depicting how the disease affects the patient, and how indirectly it afflicts the caretakers too. He later had a discussion about various aspects of the disease. This year's theme for World Alzheimer's Day is 'Remember Me'.
The aim of the programme was to spread awareness about the disease, that one must empathize with these patients, shower them with love and not merely consider them senile only fit for old aged homes.

06/07/2017

On July 6, 1885, Louis Pasteur successfully administered the first vaccine against a zoonotic disease, to Joseph Meister after he had been mauled by a rabid dog.

Hence, World Zoonoses Day is observed on 6th July every year to help raise awareness of the growing risk of zoonotic diseases, which are diseases that can be spread from animals to humans.
Zoonoses are viral diseases like rabies and influenza, bacterial diseases such as Lyme disease and brucellosis, or parasitic diseases such as tapeworms. All of these are diseases that can be transmitted from animals to humans.

01/07/2017

"Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity."

Today, we are students being taught by doctors; soon, we will be THE Doctors. Perhaps it is important to remind ourselves why we chose to become doctors in the first place.

Doctors hold a respected position within the community. And in our role, everything we do matters.
A doctor's devotion and care brings healing, comfort and hope. And in today's world, with so many incidences of deteriorating doctor-patient relationship, it is important to show empathy as well as compassion towards our patients.

We must remind ourselves that we aren't Gods on earth; we can treat, but only He can cure.

In recognition of the birth and the death anniversary of the legendary physician, Dr Bidhan Chandra Roy, the first day of July is observed as The National Doctor's Day in India.

So today, let us all strive to be great doctors that the world needs. :)

IMA Medical Students Network wishes you a very Happy Doctors Day!

24/06/2017

Rangoli Competition organised to culminate World Blood Donor Day and Blood Donation Week, in the OPD Block of GMC.
Theme of the competition was "Blood Donation during crisis or emergencies"
Thanks to all the participants and students for their enthusiasm and support! And congratulations to the prize winners 😊

18/06/2017