Event Description
Under the esteemed guidance of our respected Vice Chairman Mr Arpit Chadha, I.T.S – Education Group organised a webinar today on 16th June 2020 at 5 pm on topic: " An insight about COVID- 19: The master's perspective!" by honarable speaker, Padma Shri Awardee, Dr. K.K. Agrarwal. He is a physician and cardiologist. He is the President CMAAO, President of the Heart Care Foundation of India and the Past National President of Indian Medical Association. The Government of India honoured him with the award of Padma Shri, the fourth-highest civilian award, for his contributions to the field of medicine in 2010.
He has published many books on health including Alloveda, 6 textbook chapters on echocardiography and thousands of articles in national and international press. He is one of the pioneers of streptokinase therapy for heart attack in India and introduced the technique of Colour Doppler Echocardiography in India. Dr Aggarwal has been honored with the Dr. B. C. Roy Award, the highest Indian award in the medical category, in 2005.He is also a recipient of Vishwa Hindi Samman, National Science Communication Award, FICCI Health Care Personality of the Year Award, Dr D S Mungekar National IMA Award, and the Rajiv Gandhi Excellence Award, In 2010, he received the Padma Shri. He is Gold Medalist and Limca Book of record holder in CPR 10.
He gave an insightful session on current pandemic situation of corona. He mentioned the asymptomatic aspect of corona. Dr. K. K Aggarwal made us familiar with unheard concept of corona and said the causative agent has mixed property of bacteria & virus. He let us know about the different symptoms of corona patients and how the government have included more symptoms to diagnose corona. He enriched the doctor’s knowledge about the dos and don’ts while practicing.
He advised to use air purifier, PPE kits, N-95 mask, and no face to face talk. He explained definition of isolation, quarantine and monitoring. Dr. K. K Aggarwal concluded his talk by saying “Take the fear out, imagine everybody is positive, take precautions and open up to the world”. The talk was on the basis of his experience with covid patients and not on bookish knowledge. He quenched the query of audience by mentioning the preventive remedies like Haldi, giloy, kali mirch, neem, ginger, amla, vitamin C, D and zinc.
The students found the session to be really informative and explanatory. They got to understand the various basic dos and don’ts relating to the current situation. They found the answers of all the fear factors associated with corona. He very well explained to the students how to avoid panic situations during this COVID time. He really created magic and answered each query patiently and elaboratively. Around 50 students and faculty attended the session.
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