STATE TIMES NEWS
JAMMU: Dr. Sushil Sharma, Head of the Department of Cardiology (GMC and SSH) on Sunday laid emphasis on de-escalation of the border for providing relief to the stressful life of border residents all along the India-Pakistan Border in the state of Jammu and Kashmir. As it is well known to all of us that the turbulence along the border didn’t let the residents breathe sigh of relief and repeated violation of ceasefire further push them to a situation which is full of stress, fear and unpredictable sufferings.
Dr. Sharma made these observations while examining patients as a part of his mission to aware the common populace about the prevalence of cardiovascular diseases in the border village Baspur Bangla which is situated on the Indo-Pak International Border in R S Pura sector. This sector always remained in limelight due to ceasefire violations resulting into human and economic loss and virtually become a strategic space for the Pakistan Rangers to manifest Pakistan state policy of Kashmir against India. Furthermore, the prevailing uncertainty of life is the main cause of continuous stress among the inhabitants of this border belt.
Maintaining the high values of patient care and empathy, Dr. Sushil and his team reached the border village in the wee hours of the morning and examined the patients till late evening. More than 300 patients were examined, diagnosed and advised. Free medicines were also distributed as per the requirement.
As stress, hypertension, lipid abnormalities were very high among the patients examined in the camp, Dr Sushil said that there are thousands of people living along the borders of Jammu and Kashmir who are facing the harsh realities of life just being border residents. He further elaborated that such stressful life situations contribute to heart diseases and even affect behaviours and factors that increase heart disease risk like high blood pressure, cholesterol levels, smoking, physical inactivity and overeating.
Since there is positive correlation between stress and heart diseases there is need to follow proper strategies to cope up stressful conditions by doing daily exercise to help you feel good and further advised to have balanced diet, limit alcohol intake, avoid nicotine and caffeine, get enough sleep and maintain a positive attitude. Having too much stress for too long is certainly bad for heart, he advised.
It is pertinent to mention here that the camp was organised by R S Pura Police Department officials comprising Surinder Chowdhary (SDPO), Bhushan Manhas (SHO), Lalit Sharma (SI) Yashpal Chowdhary (ASI).
They along with prominent natives of the village Vijay Chib (Naib Sarpanch), Vinod Chowdhary, Ramesh Billa and Rajesh Choudhary complimented the efforts of Dr. Sushil Sharma and his team for providing succour to the stress ridden border residents.
Among others who were part of this effort include Dr Dhaneshwar Kapoor, Dr Anitipal Singh, Dr Chakshu Mahajan. Paramedics and Volunteers who accompanied include Kamal Kishore, Kashmiri Lal, Raghav Rajput, Suresh Kumar, Ankush Kohli, Vikas Sabharwal, Mohit Joord, Suresh Sharma, Aman Sandhu, Rajkumar and Vikas Kumar.
