World TB Day

Turn Your Back On TB

You must have heard of tuberculosis. You must have seen people suffering from tuberculosis. You must have been vaccinated against tuberculosis. But still you must have feared acquiring tuberculosis or you might have suffered from tuberculosis.

Tuberculosis (TB) is still an epidemic disease and a reason for many deaths especially in the developing countries. World TB Day is recognized on 24^th of March every year and it aims in spreading awareness about the disease, its mode of transmission, vaccination and treatment for tuberculosis. This day commemorates the day in 1882 when Dr Robert Koch announced that he had discovered the cause of tuberculosis, the TB bacillus – Mycobacterium Tuberculosis. This discovery opened the way toward diagnosing and curing tuberculosis.

In the year 1982, on the 100^th anniversary of Dr Koch’s presentation, the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (IUATLD) proposed that 24^th March should be denoted as an official World TB Day. In 1996, the World Health Organization (WHO) joined with the IUATLD and other concerned organizations to increase the impact of World TB Day.

Mycobacterium tuberculosis has been present in the human population from ancient times. Recent studies have shown that the existence of this micro-organism dates back to approximately 15000 years. The fragments of the spinal column from Egyptian mummies from 2400 BC showed definite pathological signs of tubercular decay. In Greece, around 460 BC, Hippocrates identified phthisis as the most widespread disease of the times, and noted that it was almost very fatal.

Many were diagnosed suffering from Phthisis, many from King’s Evil and many from Lupus Vulgaris. Many died from White Plague or from Consumption or from Pott’s disease. And yet today, many still die from this disease now very commonly known as TB.

On this day all of us should not just improve our knowledge on tuberculosis but each one of us should also take precautions so as to save ourselves and people around us from such an infectious disease. Small pox was once a dreaded disease but today it is an eradicated infection. With our efforts one day even TB could be uprooted completely, and we can finally turn our backs on this very contagious life-taking infection forever.

Save yourself and save people around you.

An Era Of Women Expressions

“I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.”
                                                                                                               - Mohandas Gandhi

Service and sacrifice are practised by every woman knowingly or unknowingly as a daughter, a wife or a mother. We have evolved out of those times where a girl born was regarded as a curse to this age where woman is a teacher, a doctor, an engineer, an architect, a lawyer, an entrepreneur, a politician, a celebrity….and a person of which her parents are proud of. Being a woman and at the same time being a career woman calls for a celebration, and hence, there is the International Women’s Day.

The ‘International Women’s Day’ is celebrated on 8th March every year since 1975. This day is to felicitate all women in the world for their role in the economy and social development. This day reminds the contribution of those women in the history who struggled hard to achieve better working conditions, better wages and better rights for the women labour force. This day is celebrated around the world at the local and national levels to honour the struggle to improve women’s lives.

This newsletter is dedicated to all those heroic ladies who lived to bring a change, those who live to make a difference and those who will in future live to make a mark in the society and the world.

Very true in the words of Anon…

                                               “There’s not a blessing or a woe,
                                               There’s not a whisper, yes, or no,
                                             There’s not a life, or death, or birth,
                                             That has a feather’s weight of worth,
                                               Without a woman a woman in it.”

                                                    BRAVO TO ALL LADIES!

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