Keeping in view the spurt in non-communicable diseases (NCDs), a Non-Communicable Disease Prevention and Training Unit (NPTU) was inaugurated at the IMS and Sum Hospital here on Tuesday.
The hospital’s Community Medicine Department head Prof Trilochan Sahu and Medicine professor Dr BN Panda inaugurated the centre in the presence of the SOA University Managing Member Gopabandhu Kar.The facility has been launched in collaboration with the Bangalore-based St John’s Medical College and Hospital.The objective of the venture is to provide counselling on adherence to medications and lifestyle modification to high-risk patients suffering from hypertension, diabetes, etc, said Prof Sahu.
It also aims at creating sustainable mechanism for coordination on prevention and control of major NCDs, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes mellitus and stroke.