World Health Day celebrations

                                                                                                                                      25/4/17

Dayanand Medical College & Hospital celebrated WORLD HEALTH DAY-2017 on the theme “SUPERFOODS – THE POWER HOUSE OF NUTRIENTS.” Competition was organized on 25^thapril 2017, in which the students from different colleges of the city presented healthy food ideas and discriminated, knowledge regarding super food.

The chief guest for the occasion was Secretary, DMCH Managing Society Sh. Prem Kumar Gupta, appreciated the student’s efforts and new ideas and even congratulated the students for participating in the event. The judges for the competition were Dr. Deepinder Chhina, Prof & Head Microbiology, Dr. Suman Puri, Professor & Unit Head, Obst., & Gynae, Dr. Anurag Chaudhary, Prof and Head SPM.  Dr. Paramjit Ghuman, Ex - Principal from SDP College, Ludhiana and Dr. S K Mann, Ex - Dean, Home Science College PAU Ludhiana.

Mr. G C Dhawan, Vice President, DMCH Managing Society & Dr. Sandeep Puri, Principal, DMCH, Guest of Honour, in his address said that nutrition is a baseline for our body; it plays a fundamental role in achieving overall health.  Healthy body leads to healthy mind and makes you more active and makes you feel good. He further added that body is just like a vehicle, more we fuel it with good nutritious food, the more you go nearer to the healthy body.

In his address, Dean Dr. Rajoo Singh Chhina, said nutrition is a key to overall good health and proper nutrition is important for all of us to look better, think better and perform better. And he further added having nutritious food is not about staying hungry or deprived but it is all about energized to live the life to the fullest. Having a good food is very important because you are fueling up yourself for the rest of the day and even it gears up your metabolism to fight against diseases.  Medical Supdt., Dr. Ashwani Chaudhary & Dr Sandeep Sharma were also present during the programe to give the prizes.

According to the Incharge, Department of Dietetic Ms. Shaveta Batta world health day is celebrated each year on 7^th April. The objective of the event was to create awareness on how we can make small changes in eating patterns to include healthier ingredients while cooking. 

Winners of the event were Ms. Komalpreet Kaur, from PAU, Ldh stood 1^st and Ms. Garima & Ms. Sharren from DMC stood 2^nd and 3^rd respectively.