The World Acidity Day was celebrated on Tuesday with a unique sand art by Padma Shri Sudarsan Pattnaik on the Puri beach. The art was meant to create awareness among the people about acidity.
The sand art is a joint effort of Dr Reddy's, more than 50,000 doctors and the Association of Physicians of India. It reflects how joyful an acidity-free lifestyle is.
Speaking on the occasion, Padma Shri Patnaik said, "The Acidity Symbol, designed in the context of celebrating the World Acidity Day, which was first launched on January 9, 2024, will affect a large section of society. I hope the sand art will help every Indian to talk about acidity and take steps to deal with it appropriately.”
Notably, acidity is caused by fast lifestyle, unbalanced diet and other factors, which in turn lead to many complex health problems.
World Acidity Day is being celebrated to commemorate the contribution of Dr Sorensen, who devised the pH formula to express acidity, on his birth anniversary.