Banega Swasth India Season 9 Finale: Meet The Padma Awardees
A panel of healthcare experts joins us for the grand finale of NDTV-Dettol Banega Swasth India Season 9. Here is all you need to know about them.
In Assam, Dr Kannan runs the Cachar Cancer Hospital and Research Centre, where he treats cancer patients free of cost. So far, Dr. Kannan has treated over 70,000 cancer patients. He was conferred with Padma Shri in 2020, India's fourth highest civilian honour, for his exemplary work in the field of medicine.
Dr Dhananjay Diwakar Sagdeo: Born in Nagpur, Maharashtra, Dr Dhananjay Diwakar Sagdeo is a Hematologist. He has been serving the tribals of Wayanad in Kerala for the last four decades. He was the first to discover Sickle Cell Anaemia among the tribal of Wayanad. The motto of Dr Sagdeo's life is ?Manava Sewa is Madhava Sewa'. For his selfless service, Dr Sagdeo was bestowed with the Padma Shri award in 2021.
Dr Veeraswamy Seshiah: Born and brought up in Chennai, Dr Seshiah is India's first diabetic pathologist. He is known as the Bhishma Pitamah of pregnancy diabetes in India. He introduced the ?Single Test Procedure' to diagnose Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM). GDM poses a higher risk for babies dying in the womb in the 28th week of pregnancy or after (stillbirth).
Dr. Praveen Chandra: A leading Indian Cardiologist from Gurgaon, Dr. Praveen Chandra is recognised as one of the leaders in Angioplasty in the country. First time in India, he did Percutaneous Aortic valve implantation without surgery, he also did the first-ever percutaneous mitral valve repair. Both have important implications in our country with the highest number of Valvular cases in the world.
Dr. Chakravarty has been actively working in several areas of public health including nutrition, WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene), food safety, environmental pollution, and human resource development, among others. She has been a consultant and adviser of several UN and other agencies like WHO, FAO, UNICEF, UNDP, World Bank, IDRC, and CIDA in numerous countries all over Asia, Africa and Europe.
NDTV in partnership with Luminous has launched an awareness campaign ‘Be A Bijli Donor’ to promote the idea of ‘save power for more power’. The idea is to conserve energy today in order to get more power tomorrow.
We inherently know that saving energy results in low energy bills, but we also need to understand that a unit of energy saved today makes it available for people still living in the dark or facing regular power cuts.
Saving power or conserving energy is about knowing the sources of energy, and areas of wastage and thereby eliminating these through technology and lifestyle changes. For instance, a 100 W (Watt) incandescent (ICL) bulb can be replaced with a 9 W LED bulb offering similar performance in terms of light output, but at far lower consumption of energy.
While a 100 W ICL bulb, used for four hours a day, consumes 146 units of energy per year, a 9 W LED bulb requires only 13.5 units per year. Clearly, switching to LED is a smart choice as it provides the same output while consuming 90 per cent less energy.
The focus of the campaign is to instill the idea of ‘save power for more power’ and in order to do so, the initiative will create awareness about energy efficient products and services, smart ways to reduce power consumption, alternate sources of energy like solar energy and the need to conserve energy. The idea is to address the rising need for energy conservation in India.
As part of the campaign, we will highlight the stories of individuals and organisations who are championing the cause of energy conservation by switching to renewable sources of energy, adopting innovations to reduce energy consumption while enjoying the same output. The initiative will provide a platform for all stakeholders to share their ideas and work towards the common goal of, ‘Save power for more power’.