Sensitisation Workshop on Osteoporosis & Bone Health organised at GNDU

Amritsar, March 5, 2015: Punjab State Council for Science & Technology in collaboration with Guru Nanak Dev University organised Sensitisation Workshop on Osteoporosis & Bone Health.

Raj Bahadur, Vice Chancellor, Baba Farid University of Health Sciences during his keynote address gave an overview of prevalence of osteoporosis in the country, its diagnostic methods and preventive & treatment measures.  Paramjit Singh, Dean Academic Affairs welcomed all the participants of the University and elaborating the needs for such workshops.

Baldev Singh, ADC (Dev.), Amritsar was guest of Honour. He pledged all administrative support possible for organizing awareness camps on Osteoporosis.  Dapinder K. Bakshi, Principal Scientific Officer, Punjab State Council for Science & Technology during her welcome address informed that the workshop is the outcome of the project being implemented jointly by GNDU and PSCST with the support of Department of Science & Technology, Govt. of India.

She emphasised that the awareness on osteoporosis & its related causative factors is essentially lacking in the population and hence series of workshops and public contact programmes are being organised to make public aware about osteoporosis & its prevention through minor modulation of lifestyle.

Shweta Shenoy, Principal Investigator and Coordinator from GNDU informed that survey based epidemiological study involving more than 3000 women from Amritsar has been carried out for whom bone mineral density analysis has been evaluated. Further, she informed that 70% of women from Amritsar district have low bone mass.

 Rakesh Sharma, Associate Professor, Govt. Medical College, Amritsar and Meena Bagha, Assistant Professor, R Govt. College, Amritsar provided their inputs during technical sessions elaborating in detail the situation in India regarding the morbidity associated with osteoporosis and its management and nutritional habits associated with good bone health. About 100 participants mainly from education sector, officers from development departments participated in the workshop.