The Indian Medical Association is collaborating with Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), who in turn, is collaborating with Centre for Chronic Disease Control – WHO Collaborating Centre and PHFI to observe May 2017 as — May Measurement Month —which is a joint initiative between the International Society of Hypertension and World Hypertension league.
As a part of this international project, it has been decided to monitor Blood Pressure of over 25 million people around the globe with India getting a target of 2.5 million in this month.
Indian Medical Association has been assigned, as a participant of this initiative, to ensure that each member of the Association monitors the blood pressure of at least 20 patients per day for the whole month starting from 1st May 2017.
Under this project, all patients between 18-65 years of age are to undergo Blood Pressure monitoring three times in one go with a gap of one minute each through mid-left arm sitting position.