World Health Day Theme 2020: Support Nurses and Midwives

This year’s theme for World health day is to support Nurses and Wives. It’s a day to honor nurses and midwives and to remind the world that nurses and midwives play an important role in keeping the world healthy. In the current scenario nurses and other health workers are at the front line of COVID-19 response providing respectful treatment and high-quality care. It is important to educate nurses and midwives to international standards as it reduces unnecessary interventions and increases the quality of care and health for all. This year, the world health organization has aimed to ensure that all nurses and midwives work in a safe environment, have access to health-care service and respected by medical colleagues and community members. So take a minute and say Thank you to Nurses and midwives.

INFORMATION SOURCE: https://www.who.int/news-room/campaigns/world-health-day/world-health-day-2020

In the last 50 years, World heath day has highlighted important health issues such as child health, maternal health, and mental health. The celebration is marked by activities that extend beyond the day itself and is a chance to focus on these global health issues worldwide.

Dr. Satyendra Tawar, practically trained the officers on Basic Life Support and Cardiac Live Support system. He also told what precautions should be taken and how to shift the patient if his backbone got injured during an accident. He said the purpose of giving these types of training is to reduce the number of accidents in the world. Reviving the heart and lungs by CPR technology was also explained in detail. Some basic things that are necessary in everyday life like how to clean the breathing tube by pressing the chest, How should the patient be saved from paralytic attack, how to save the person before the arrival of the doctor was explained.

 DSP of Hisar Police, Jogendra Sharma, who played a key role in winning India against Pakistan in World Cup T-20, 2007, arrived as the chief guest of the seminar. DSP Jogendra Sharma said that today’s seminar is a gift for our officials as today is World Health Day and they are invited to get training on first aid and CPR. On behalf of Hisar Police, he heartily thanked Dr. Umesh kalra and his team. In today’s seminar, staff of more than 70 traffic jawans took part in the workshop. Dr. Umesh Kalra said that if any traffic police jawan or any other person could save the life of a victim, we called our seminar successful.

On this occasion, Dr. Sarita Kalra, Administrator Jaspal Singh and traffic spokesman Harish Bhardwaj, along with traffic jawans were present.

WHO determines a theme every year on Health Day. This time, World Health Day theme is Universal Health coverage: Everyone, Everywhere. This means every person should get health care everywhere. That is, people of all classes get better health care without any financial difficulties. It includes the full spectrum of services needed throughout life—from health promotion to prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, and palliative care—and is best based on a strong primary health care system.