Actress Namitha and Director & Actor Ramesh Khanna flagged off the Walkathon to mark 16th Edition of World Kidney Day organised by Dr Mehta Hospital
Dr. Mehta’s Hospitals organised Walkathon to Create Awareness on “Living Well with Kidney Diseases”
~ Actress Namitha and Director & Actor Ramesh Khanna flagged off the Walkathon ~
Chennai, March 14th, 2021: Mehta Multispecialty Hospitals India Pvt Ltd and International Paediatric Nep hro logy Association (IPNA) organised a 2kms long walkathon which was kick-started at Elliot’s beach, Besant Na gar, Chennai to create awareness on “Living Well with Kidney Diseases to mark 16th Edition of World Kidney Day. The walkathon organized by the Department of Paediatric Nephrology at Dr Mehta’s Hospitals, under the leadership of Dr. Kalaivani Ganesan along with her colleagues Dr Sudha Ekambaram and Dr Sukanya Govindan with the guidance of Dr. B. R. Nammalwar (Director-Paediatric Nephrology) Dr. Mehta’s Hospitals, Chennai. The Walkathon was flagged off by Actress Namitha and Director & Actor Ramesh Khanna.
Over 200 students and their parents participated in the walkathon and the students carried placards and ban ners to spread awareness on precautions and management of chronic kidney ailments and importance of prev ention of kidney ailments. This year’s World Kidney Day is being observed with the theme ‘Living Well with Ki dney Disease”.
The Participants were given certificates by Hospital Chairman Mr. Dilip Mehta and Vice Chairman Mr. Sameer Mehta.
Speaking on the occasion Dr. Kalaivani Ganesan highlighted “The objective of organising this event is to increase education and awareness about effective symptom management and patient empowerment, with the ultimate goal of encouraging meaningful participation in every-day life.”
On the occasion Dr Sudha Ekambaram added “Effective measures to prevent kidney disease and its progression is important, patients with kidney disease – including those who depend on dialysis and transplantation – and their care-partners should also feel supported, especially during pandemics and other challenging periods, by the concerted efforts of kidney care communities
Specifically, WKD calls on everyone to advocate for concrete preventive measures in every country to improve kidney care by encouraging them to adopt healthy lifestyles (access to clean water, exercise, healthy diet, to ba cco control. Many types of kidney diseases can be prevented, delayed and/or kept under control when appropr iate prevention measures are in place. Sensitizing every individual of the world population on these preven tive measures is one of the goals of physicians who care for patients with kidney diseases. The International Soci ety of Nephrology/International paediatric nephrology and other Forums of Nephrologists world over unite together on this day for the sacred mission.
Dr. Mehta’s Hospitals at Chennai is a pioneer hospital over 85 years delivering quality healthcare to the society with a commitment to the social responsibility for creating health awareness among the general public. To hono ur this commitment the Department of Paediatric Nephrology of this Institution participates in the WKD every year. We, in the Department of Pediatric Nephrology of Dr. Mehta’s Hospital pledge that “The best means to fight chronic kidney disease is prevention: it is thus paramount to identify and to treat possible and preventable risk factors, but reversing the the tide will require concerted efforts not just from healthcare providers, but from the entire society”.
About Dr Mehta’s Hospitals
Dr Mehta’s Hospitals today has over 500 beds across our Multi-Specialty Tertiary Care Units in Chetpet and Velappanachavadi with over 80 Medical and Surgical specialities and 600 leading clinicians. Our units have hel ped deliver over 2 Million babies. We have been privileged to have served more than 20,000 families across 2 generations and more than 300 families across 3 generations. Mehta Multispecialty Hospitals India Pvt Ltd has successfully conducted over 2 million surgeries (including >100,000 complex surgeries) and 170s successful Kidney transplants.
