PSRI Hospital has established a full fledged department of preventive healthcare and lifestyle diseases
The work culture as well as the environment impact our health greatly. Stressful working conditions, polluted air we inhale and chemically treated food we consume are showing up in the form of certain diseases labelled aptly as ‘lifestyle diseases’. They are diabetes, hypertension, obesity, hyperlipidermia, ischemic heart disease and fatty liver disease. All of them carry tremendous morbidity which burdens the patients and their families with huge medical costs. Preventing them and promoting healthy living standards are accepted as the most important steps in stymieing this trend, yet few hospitals have taken up the task seriously. PSRI Hospital has taken up this initiative of establishing a full fledged department of preventive healthcare and lifestyle diseases.
We have all the materialistic goods for our pleasure and recreation like TV, car, washing machine, refrigerator. All these come with a maintenance manual. They are supposed to last for a few years. Yet each of them comes with an instruction note that tells you how to handle it. As a human body, we do not have any maintenance manual. You work in your office for eight to 10 hours. You sleep in your bedroom for six to seven hours, in your drawing room for one to two hours but still you take care to maintain and beautify the above places where you reside only for a few hours. Every 24 hours, an adult heart expands and contracts 100 thousand times pumping about 2000 gallons of blood through the body’s 60,000 miles of arteries and brains.
Do you take care of your human body to the extent you look after the place where you reside for only a few hours?
People visit healthcare providers only when they fall sick or injured but they also need to visit the physician when they are well for a preventive health check up. A majority of costly and disabling conditions can be prevented with proper intervention and many of their complications can be avoided or at least delayed.
Who should have preventive health check up?
- Family history of hypertension
- Obesity
- Smoker
- Alcohol abuse
- Family history of diabetes
- Family history of premature cardio vascular disease.
- People who become angry, hostile.
- Family history of cancer
PSRI Hospital has created a preventive health programme towards achieving balanced excellence in physical, intellectual, emotional, material, social and spiritual well being of an individual. The PHC programme has been designed to cater to the needs of every segment of the society.
Preventive strategies for healthy life
- Quit smoking
- Eating five servings fruits and vegetables daily
- Eat 30-50 gms nuts per day
- Know your numbers: checking and remembering the results of blood pressure, blood sugar, total cholesterol and HDL levels are more important than you realise. Approximately one-third of the general population do not know their numbers another third do, but then do not know the specific numbers. Only a third find out and remember these values as well as what they mean.
Please do remember, prevention is better than cure, prevention is the medical miracle of 21st century.
PSRI has set up many healthcare check-up packages for early detection of lifestyle diseases and advising appropriate timely interventions. To complement these preventive healthcare efforts, PSRI has already in place an integrated system of counselling for diabetes, obesity, heart diseases and gastrointestinal diseases. Psychological counselling and dietary advice are additional features. A comprehensive management of obesity, including liposuction and bariatric surgery is also available at the hospital.
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