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| Filmstars including Archita, Bijay Mohanty, Samaresh, Muna Khan, footballer Shradhanjali Samantaray, health minister Damodar Rout and other political and culture figures at an awareness rally against Hepatitis B in Bhubaneswar. (Right) Union minister of petroleum and natural gas Veerappa Moily addresses a gathering at KIIT University, Bhubaneswar. Telegraph pictures |
Movie stars, sportspersons, cultural icons, politicians, doctors and students joined hands on World Hepatitis Day on July 28 to raise awareness about the dangers of Hepatitis-B virus. Health and family welfare minister Damodar Rout also attended the event in the capital, where he stressed on improved lifestyles to keep the deadly disease at bay. “Industrialisation, rapid urbanisation and lifestyle issues have been found to be the main causes behind all new diseases and infections confronting us today,” Rout said, addressing a rally organised by the Institute of Medical Sciences and Sum Hospital, Bhubaneswar. “Experts say that India will turn into the world capital of diabetes by 2022 and will also account for 60 per cent of all people suffering from coronary problems of whom half would be below the age of 50 years. People today are opting for new diseases in their search for pleasure,” the minister added. Actors Archita Sahu, Bijay Mohanty, Ratan Meher and Muna Khan, singers Laxmikanta Palit and Bibhukishore, former Indian women’s football team skipper Shraddhanjali Samantaray, mayor Ananta Narayan Jena, legislators Bijoy Mohanty and Raghunath Sahu, former MLA Dilip Srichandan and many others took part in a walk to raise awareness against Hepatitis-B. A faculty member of the host institute, Manoj Kumar Sahu, said that on most occasions, Hepatitis-B infection led to cirrhosis and liver cancer. “There are 46 million Hepatitis-B infected people in India today while, the infection killed one lakh people every year on an average,” he said. However, a very safe and effective vaccine against Hepatitis-B was available since 1970, which is yet to become widely known, Sahu said. “This vaccine can be administered to people of any age to ensure a Hepatitis-B free healthy life. Once immunised, the protection remains for the entire life,” he added. He announced that the department of gastroenterology at the Institute of Medical Sciences and Sum Hospital was providing free screening for Hepatitis B virus on all working days, while free vaccination would be done in the hospital for six days from July 29 to August 3.
Age advantage
Union minister of petroleum and natural gas M. Veerappa Moily addressed students and faculty members of KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, during his recent visit to the state. Giving a picture of the employment scenario, he told the students that the country needed to create about 100 million new jobs in the next decade. At present, 26 per cent of the population in the 15 to 24 age group is in education, but this proportion will increase in future, the Union minister said. Similarly, some adult women will stay at home, he said, adding that only a third of the adult women work in India at present, which was low by Asian standards. By 2020, the average Indian will be only 29 years of age, compared to 37 in China, 45 in the US and 48 in Western Europe and Japan, he said. India will continue to have this age advantage for at least three decades, Moily added. On the occasion, he also visited Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences, a residential tribal institute of the varsity, which houses more than 15,000 students.
Writer’s tips
Start small but dream big, have a plan and believe in yourself. These words of wisdom came from best-selling author Rashmi Bansal at an interactive session organised by X-SEED, the entrepreneurship development cell of the Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar, on July 26. An entrepreneur, Bansal started off the talk in the same way as she does in her books – straight to the point, in the simplest yet most inspiring manner: “Live life in a different way”. With the message of beginning a career in entrepreneurship, she shared how living without a passion makes life “mundane and dissatisfying”. She said there were two kinds of people in the world — “The Believers” who simply take the call because they feel so, and “The Opportunists” who just seized opportunities as they come. Giving numerous real life examples of B-school graduates and successful entrepreneurs, Bansal said one should become an entrepreneur not for money but because they want to create something.
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| Best-selling author Rashmi Bansal offers tips on entrepreneurship at XIMB, Bhubaneswar. (above) Students of SoA National Institute of Law, Bhubaneswar, take part in a moot court on campus. Telegraph pictures |
Exchange programme
National Law School of India University, Bangalore, will sign an agreement with SoA National Institute of Law, Bhubaneswar, shortly to facilitate faculty and student exchange programmes as well as internships. NLSIU vice-chancellor R.Venkata Rao, who attended the third orientation session of SNIL on July 28, disclosed the plan. On the occasion, a daylong moot court was organised in which students enacted a real courtroom situation and argued a case involving a woman’s petition for divorce and maintenance from her husband. At the orientation session, state information commissioner Jagadanand, high court judge B.K. Patel and vice-chancellor of Siksha O Anusandhan University D.K. Ray also addressed the gathering. Before this, a team of third-year students, Abhishek Choudhury and Ritika Ritu, finished third in the moot court held on the occasion of the 56th death anniversary of late Justice Bira Kishore Ray, the first chief justice of Orissa High Court. The competition was judged by high court advocates. They received prizes from Supreme Court judge Justice A.K. Patnaik, leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley, Chief Justice of Orissa High Court, Justice C. Nagappan and former Chief Justice of India, Justice G.B. Pattnaik.
Pain relief
Kalinga Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar, recently introduced Sigma PS150 High-Flex Knee System, which is considered the most advanced knee replacement implant available in the world. The facility gives a patient the advantages of near normal knee motion, said Basanta Kumar Behera of the institute’s orthopaedics department. The department has also started a joint replacement training centre to train young orthopaedic surgeons with the help of DepoySynthes Institute. This course is being conducted for the first time in the state in association with the Odisha Orthopaedics Association.
