Triple celebration World breast feeding week Teen –age day & month ors day& week

1. Triple celebrationWorld breast feeding weekTeen –age day & monthors day& week President IAP TN .Dr.V.SIVAPRAKASAM,M.D.D.C.H.

2. Celebrations • World Breast Feeding Week Aug. 1-7 • O R S Day July 29th • O R S Week July 29th to 4thAug • Teen Age Day. Aug 1st • Teen age Month Aug 1-31 • Adolescent & Childcare Week Nov.10-17

3. World Breast Feeding Week: • Breast feeding is the best feeding for babies. • It provides total immunity for the babies. • It protects the babies from infection. • WHO recommends Exclusive Brest feeding up to 6 months. Breastfeeding to be continued for 6 months along with complementary feeds • .It is the cost effective method of decreasing IMR – Infant Mortality Rate. • It reduces the diarrheal diseases and respiratory infections. • Government has given 6 months maternity leave for lactating mothers to augment exclusive breast feeding for 6 month. • It is our duty to propagate this important message to the community by the way of celebrating WBW – World Breast Feeding Week Celebration. • IAP will provide technical information. • Celebrate it during Aug 1st to &7th

4. World Breast Feeding Week: • Celebrate all 7 days • Daily one School • Rally with School Students • Essay competition to School Students • Valedictory function on the 7th day • Planning meeting with District officials • Involve IAP & Inner Whell • Lactation management Training for nurses • Celebrate with Teen- Age Day

5. Adolescent health education and life style education • Teenage week is celebrated along with breast feed week. • Adolescent age is vulnerable age for developing bad habits like smoking, alcohol and drugs. Because of the experimenting tendencies there is a chance they might get HIV infection. • During Teenage love is also a common issue. • Teenage children are emotionally unstable and they can’t withstand failure and even they were depressed by low marks in the exams. • They should be trained to with stand stress for which life skill education will be helpful. • To maintain health in adolescent children, we want to teach them what to do and what not to do.

6. Adolescent health education and life style education • Developing good habits, • Preventions of diseases, • Importance of exercise, • Balanced diet, • personal hygiene , • Menstrual hygiene ,in girls • Avoidance of stress, • Sweet and pleasant voice method of study • Ability to say ‘no’ to peer pressure • Decision making skills • problem solving skills • Will be taught to the students

7. Adolescent health education and life style education • 500 Pediatricians were Trained in Adolescent health Education in Tamil nadu • They are ready to Train the students in +1 or 9th std at schools on Adolescent health Education in Tamil nadu • Kindly use Rotarians to organize the meeting at School and Train the students • It will be a combined Project of IAP & Rotary where ever possible • August Month of 2012 is declared by IAP TN as Teen-age Month and planed to cover2500 Schools with he help of Rotary & Lions

8. Ors day & week • Celebrate all 7 days • Daily one School • Rally with School Students • Essay competition to School Students • Valedictory function on the 7th day • Planning meeting with District officials • Involve Rotary & Inner Wheel • ORS mixing competition • Celebrate with Teen- Age Day

9. Dyslexia Training Program for Teachers: • Government allowances given for dyslexia are • 1 hr extra time in examination • Exemption from one language • No mark reduction for spelling and grammar mistakes • Can use calculator in math exam. • Scriber may be permitted • If these unfortunate children with learning disability are identified in time with remedial teaching and training and government concession provided to them they will cross +2, degree and even a master degree also. • These children will be very happy and they will come up in life and live happily.

10. Dyslexia Training Program for Teachers: • 500 Pediatricians are Trained in Screening Children with Learning Disability • LD center started at Medical Colleges • Teachers are going to be Trained in Primary screening for Dyslexia at School Level • Salem Krishnagiri & Dharmapuri District Teachers are going to be trained in Dyslexia • Other Districts to be fallowed up in future • Interested Districts can do this Project

11. MATERNAL&CHILD HEALTH • Adoption of a village to provide basic health facility • conducting women development program to provide knowledge of good parenting • conducting awareness program to inculcate healthy sanitation practices in villages • conducting awareness program on the importance of women education • conducting guidance and counseling sessions to improve the quality of relationship between parents, teachers and children • conducting programs on personal health and hygiene • Good parenting will lead to healthier children both physically and mentally. hence awareness programs to stress the importance of good parenting could be conducted. 

12. Child & Adolesent Health care Week • Adolescent Health Education • Life skill Education • Obesity Detection camp • Anemia prevention Project • Dental Camp • Child Health camp • Eye camp • Neonatal Training For Nurses & Nursing asst. • Immunisation camp

13. Thank you