The welfare society of Teaching Hospital Jaffna conducted a cycling awareness programme for health staff and public on the 22nd of January 2023, Sunday at 6.30 am. The consultants and Lecturers of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Jaffna participated in this programme to increase the awareness of a healthy lifestyle among staff and public.
Dr. S. Gobishangar, Head, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Jaffna and Dr. B. Balagobi, Senior Lecturer, Consultant Urological Surgeon, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Jaffna and Dr. Brammah R Thangarajah, Senior Lecturer, Consultant Nephrologist, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Jaffna participated with other consultants and other health staffs of Teaching Hospital Jaffna.
The cycle race started at Teaching Hospital Jaffna. It traveled 30km around Jaffna city and ended at Teaching Hospital Jaffna. A significant proportion of health staff including doctors, allied professional, nursing staffs and healthcare workers participated in this programme. This cycle trace had been led by Dr. T. Sathiyamoorthy, Director of Teaching Hospital, Jaffna and Dr.S.Premakrishna, President, Welfare society of Teaching Hospital, Jaffna.
This has increased enthusiasm to do more regular healthy exercises among health staffs and public. We noticed during the cycle race that there was a greater number of the young generation actively joining this cycle race. As an academic of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Jaffna, we have a social commitment to implement strategies for preventing Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) through an active healthier life style according to the saying “prevention is better than cure”. We all have enthusiasm to implement the preventative measures to our community by reducing the NCDs socio-economic burden. Therefore, we have discussed this matter with Director, Teaching Hospital, Jaffna and will be organized more cycling programmes collaboratively with the students of the well-being center, Faculty of Medicine, University of Jaffna and the wellbeing society of Teaching Hospital Jaffna including consultants, doctors, allied health professionals, nursing officers and other health staffs to increase the public awareness in our region.
