Professor (Dr) Ajai Singh, Executive Director of AIIMS Bhopal, always emphasizes that we should go out of the hospital premises, among the people in the community to provide them health information.
Only then will we be able to truly make people health conscious. In view of the increasing cases of cancer in the country, it is very important to create awareness. HPV vaccination is very important to combat the problem of cervical cancer especially in women.
Professor Singh places great emphasis on the education of children in particular. According to him, educating or making a child aware means educating or making a generation aware. In this connection, Dr Shashank Bansal, Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Oncology, AIIMS Bhopal, recently organized an awareness program on cancer for the children of class 11th and 12th at Orion International School. In this awareness program, children were told about the screening technique through which any person can check himself at the primary level whether he has cancer.
The risk of cervical cancer in women is almost completely eliminated after HPV vaccination. Besides, children were also given information about how to maintain their lifestyle.
