Mumbai: In a landmark move, climate change will soon be included in all medical course all over the country.
this National Center for Disease Control (NCDC) is working with various medical boards to introduce concepts such as warming and disrupted air quality and their impact on health medical education and medical staff training in India.
To this end, NCDC has united bodies such as National Medical Council, Dental Council, Ayush, Nursing Council and Pharmacy Council. Medical schools must also teach students about environmental health—a decades-old call that has, unfortunately, been ignored until now.
“Today, a patient was asked whether he smoked or drank alcohol. His poor health had nothing to do with external environmental factors. Our goal is to address the reality that our changing climate conditions are affecting people’s health, and our medical profession People need to realize this,” said an official at NCDC’s Center for Environmental and Occupational Health, Climate Change and Health. “…we cannot ignore the need to train students to think about the effects of pollution on the environment. The human body.”
Experts at two-day Heatwave 2023 National Symposium at IIT Mumbai The meeting, which ended on Tuesday, gave an example of the Ahmedabad model in this regard. Last year, Ahmedabad became the first city in India to develop a “Health Action Plan”, which includes early warning systems and preparedness plans.
Emphasizing the Ahmedabad model, Mahaveer Golechha, associate professor at India’s Gandhinagar Institute of Public Health, said when looking at all-cause mortality data, public health researchers saw an increase in deaths in May. “Why doesn’t India have a system to release IPD and OPD data from hospitals? Unless we acknowledge the reality that climate change is affecting the health of our population, we cannot develop corrective measures,” said Golechha, who is concerned with the fact that India reports no heat-related deaths. system.
The workshop experts acknowledged that heat waves will increase in intensity and that reducing their health, ecological and economic impacts is important. “There is no doubt that India will be the most affected country in the world,” said Kunal Satyarthi, joint secretary of the National Disaster Management Agency.
Former DG-IMD Ajit Tyagi said 2022 is a “red flag year” as every sector is affected by global warming.
this National Center for Disease Control (NCDC) is working with various medical boards to introduce concepts such as warming and disrupted air quality and their impact on health medical education and medical staff training in India.
To this end, NCDC has united bodies such as National Medical Council, Dental Council, Ayush, Nursing Council and Pharmacy Council. Medical schools must also teach students about environmental health—a decades-old call that has, unfortunately, been ignored until now.
“Today, a patient was asked whether he smoked or drank alcohol. His poor health had nothing to do with external environmental factors. Our goal is to address the reality that our changing climate conditions are affecting people’s health, and our medical profession People need to realize this,” said an official at NCDC’s Center for Environmental and Occupational Health, Climate Change and Health. “…we cannot ignore the need to train students to think about the effects of pollution on the environment. The human body.”
Experts at two-day Heatwave 2023 National Symposium at IIT Mumbai The meeting, which ended on Tuesday, gave an example of the Ahmedabad model in this regard. Last year, Ahmedabad became the first city in India to develop a “Health Action Plan”, which includes early warning systems and preparedness plans.
Emphasizing the Ahmedabad model, Mahaveer Golechha, associate professor at India’s Gandhinagar Institute of Public Health, said when looking at all-cause mortality data, public health researchers saw an increase in deaths in May. “Why doesn’t India have a system to release IPD and OPD data from hospitals? Unless we acknowledge the reality that climate change is affecting the health of our population, we cannot develop corrective measures,” said Golechha, who is concerned with the fact that India reports no heat-related deaths. system.
The workshop experts acknowledged that heat waves will increase in intensity and that reducing their health, ecological and economic impacts is important. “There is no doubt that India will be the most affected country in the world,” said Kunal Satyarthi, joint secretary of the National Disaster Management Agency.
Former DG-IMD Ajit Tyagi said 2022 is a “red flag year” as every sector is affected by global warming.
