Health Session on Cancer and Malaria

  

One of the major initiatives with which Udaan team wanted to kick off 2012 was to hold a health session for the women on cancer. However, we needed professionals and more than just lectures to convey our message.

With the efforts of our team member Apurva, two interns from M. S. Ramaiah Medical College, Bangalore (one in top 20 best medical colleges in India), readily agreed to help us with this initiative.

With the help of Anagha and Bhavana, we decided to address issues of Malaria, breast cancer and cervical cancer. Since most of the women knew Kannada and were more comfortable with it, Anagha and Bhavana decided to present entire session in the form of small kannada skits.

Session was conducted on 31^st Jan at 5:00pm in BITS Pilani, K. K. Birla Goa Campus.  The skits were all set after night long practices. Monal helped in giving a voice over to the whole play along with the interns. Gnana, Aparajitha, Aditi, Madhulekha and Aporva along with Bhavana and Anagha enacted the skits. The skits highlighted important points like symptoms, preventions and cure of malaria; early detection, prevention and cure of cervical cancer; detection, cure and self breast examination in case of breast cancer. Skits were also followed by videos for better understanding. 

Prof. Saby John, Prof. Meenal Kowshik and Prof. Judith Braganca took some time from their busy schedules to attend this session. After overcoming the initial inhibition, women attended the session with a lot of enthusiasm. Presence of medical interns made it easier for the women to present their doubts and get them clarified. For most of them, this was the first medical session on these topics.

The Udaan team would specially like to thank Anagha and Bhavana to help us with this initiative and making it a huge success :D

And lastly Cheers to the Udaan team for bringing it all together!!!