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World MS Day 2018 – Bangalore – Camp

By May 30, 2018June 17th, 2018Bengaluru

MSSI Bengaluru Chapter celebrated World MS Day on 30th May 2018 at Vikram Hospital from 8.30 am to 12.30 pm. Coinciding with the theme #bringinguscloser we had a large number of participation from MS persons, their family members, Caregivers, Doctors, Pharma people, volunteers, Physiotherapists etc., More than 80 people were present including 35 MS persons.

Initially the camp started with sumptuous breakfast sponsored by Pharma Companies Reliance Life Sciences, Merck & Eisai Pharma. Welcome speech was given by Hon. Secretary Shankar Subramanian inviting everyone for the WMSD Celebration.

Doctors present :
Dr. Rajesh B. Iyer – Neurologist, Vikram Hospital
Dr. Jaychandran – Neurologist, Vikram Hospital
Dr. Swarna Gowri – Nutritionist
Dr. Shashikanth – Yoga therapist
Dr. Vijeendran – Physiotherapist

The camp started with Cake cutting of WMSD by MS persons Rajkumari & Geetha Balaji. Laughing therapy by Shankar was held followed by Question & Answer session with MSPs’ and care givers on how people were going about dealing with the treatment & their views. Dr. Rajesh Iyer also explained in detail about the disadvantages of the disease for people who are not on any therapy in order to avoid further deterioration of MS. This discussion was followed by Yoga therapy by Dr. Shashikanth for about 15 mins in which he taught some simple mudras to be followed daily.

An important event of the day was Donation of Wheelchair & Air bed to the needy MS persons by Vikram Hospital.  Two Wheelchairs were donated to Manohar & Narayan Rao & an Air Bed to MSP Archana. MSSI is indeed thankful & grateful to Vikram Hospital for their kind gesture for organising everything in celebrating WMSD in their premises.

A talk on Nutrition was rendered by Dr. Swarna Gowri for the MS persons to maintain a healthy diet. On this great event MS person Rajkumari, Dr. Rajesh B.Iyer, Dr. Shashikanth & Mr. Prasad was awarded the Champion Award given away by the CEO of Vikram Hospital Mr. Somesh Mittal. MSSI honoured all the Doctors & Pharma Representatives by giving them a Memento for their support in organising the event successfully.

All the MS persons were given gifts to commemorate WMSD. The program came to an end after the consultation of MS persons with the Doctors.

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