Aligarh: The Dawakhana Tibbiya College of Aligarh Muslim University organized a Health Summit to create awareness surrounding prominent health issues. The summit was held at the Conference Hall of the Administrative block.

In his presidential remarks, the Vice Chancellor Prof Mohammad Gulrez praised the initiative taken by Prof Salma Ahmed, member in charge, and Mohd Shariq Azam, Officiating General Manager of Dawakhana Tibbiya College.

The chief guest, eminent Anaesthesiologist and Critical Care physician Dr. Brijendra Kumar Rao, who is currently the Chairman of the Department of Critical Care Medicine, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, emphasises a holistic approach towards health over allopathic treatment alone. He also elaborated on the role and contribution of Unani medicine.

Prof Salma Ahmed, Dean, the Faculty of Management Studies and Research, welcomed the guests and participants and said that the objective of the health summit was to set an agenda for a healthier future by creating awareness amongst one and all.

Prof Asif Hasan, Dr Tabrezuz Zaman, and Dr Nafis Faizi were the resource persons who conducted three sessions.

Dr. Tabrezuz Zaman from the Department of Hospital and Hospice Studies at Jamia Millia Islamia emphasized the preventive measures to mitigate health issues and elaborated on the importance of managing mental health and stress, especially technostress, in current lifestyles, to avoid any illness arising from it.

Prof Asif Hasan, Chairman of the Department of Cardiology, talked about the causes and symptoms of cardiovascular diseases and focused especially on its most recent and rising victims, the youth. He also highlighted the issues faced by women due to which their heart ailments remain undetected or unresolved.

Dr. Nafis Faizi from the Department of Community Medicine of JNMC talked about communicable and non-communicable diseases, their causes, symptoms, and cures. He highlighted recent trends related to such diseases and suggested morbidity to be a bigger problem in NCDs and mortality in communicable diseases.

The inaugural ceremony was conducted by Tooba Fatma Bilgrami and a vote of thanks was extended by Zia Rizvi. The technical session was hosted by Sania Khan and Ambrin Shakir.