Awareness campaign by Dr. Palak Bowry on World Cancer Day
Rajat Kumar
Feb 4, 2022 05:53
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Jalandhar, February 4, 2022: Under Disha-An Initiative, Bowry Memorial Educational and Medical Trust organised an awareness campaign at Innocent Hearts, on world Cancer Day under the theme “Close the Care Gap”.
In this campaign, Dr. Palak Bowry interacted with students and highlighted the meaning of care gap. She stated that in spite of advancement in cancer treatment everyone is not able to receive it and we can reduce the gap by providing better knowledge and equal health services to each patient.
Dr. Palak enlightened them with different factors which negatively affects the care of cancer patients. She also highlighted the barriers that cancer patients face constantly at every turn of life and motivated the students to finish the discrimination with patients based on ethnicity, education, disability and lifestyle. This activity inspired the students to build a society where people have healthier lives and have better access to health and cancer services.
