BHUBANESWAR:
In order to create awareness among the people about deadly infection and
prevention of Hepatitis B virus, the IMS and SUM Hospital under the Siksha ‘O’
Anusandhan (SOA) University would organise a mega awareness campaign in the
city on the occasion of the World Hepatitis Day on July 28.
In
a Press meet, SUM hospital director Dr BK Roy said the university would hold an
Umbrella Rally started from Ram Mandir Square to Scouts Office here on the
Hepatitis Day. The doctors and medical students of the SUM hospital and others
experts would make aware the people about viral Hepatitis B which is of
greatest concern because of the burden of illness and death it causes in India
and across the world.
Gastroenterology
department head Dr Manoj Sahu said that more than 100000 people die every year
in India due to this virus alone. Most people who were infected with Hepatitis
B are unaware of their chronic infection. They are at high risk of developing
severe chronic liver disease and can unknowingly transmit the infection to
other people, he added.
Dr
Sahu said the department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at IMS and SUM
hospital provides free screening and vaccination for hepatitis B infection. “We
will be happy to give vaccines to people in the hospital,” Sahu added.
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