THYROID CHECKUP CAMP

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THYROID CHECKUP CAMP
         The National Service Scheme of KONGU ENGINEERING COLLEGE in association with ABBOTT and Thyrocare Centre, Erode organized an awareness and screening session for testing the symptoms of Thyroid for Students and staff members of Kongu Engineering College on 10th March 2015 (Tuesday). The awareness program was started around 10.00 A.M. in Maharaja Auditorium with the prayer song. The presence of Mr.S.Balakrishnan, Ms.N.A.Punithavathi, Prof.S.Kuppuswami, Principal, KEC, Dr.A.Manimaran, NSS Programme Officer (Unit#1) and Mr.S.Praveen Kumar, NSS Programme Officer (Unit#2) added glory to the function. The welcome address was by The function was started with the multimedia presentation. The presentation covered the activities of special camp which was held at Myladi from 16th February to 23rd February. The Presidential address was by Prof. S.Kuppuswami, Principal, KEC. He welcomed the gathering and thanked the ABBOTT and Thyrocare Centre for their service. He appreciated the NSS Volunteers for their excellent works and asked to continue this during the forthcoming years. He also shared his experience in the field of service and quoted some incidents. Then the session was made more useful with the multimedia presentation by Balakrishnan. The presentation was about the symptoms, causes and the ways to detect the thyroid. The symptoms of thyroid were weight loss, dry skin, loss of hair, tiredness etc. and this is more prevalent in women than in men. There are about two types of thyroid namely hyperthyroid and hypothyroid. The screening test deals with various testing procedures. Initial test was TSH followed by that, T3 and T4 test will be taken. Finally he completed his presentation by talking about the importance of thyroid and the ways to avoid prevent thyroid. The awareness program came to an end by the vote of thanks by Sharnish, NSS Volunteer. Then the NSS volunteers along with the doctors went to their respective venues for testing process. The venues were Swami Vivekananda Seminar Hall, Mechanical, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Hall, IT Park, Chanakya Seminar Hall, Food tech, Sir CV Raman Seminar Hall, S&H Block, and Maharaja Auditorium. The Volunteers were instructed by the doctors and testing procedures were started around 11.15. A.M. Students from various departments, Teaching and Non-teaching staff, and workers participated in this camp and get benefited. Around 5.00 P.M. totally 629 thyroid samples were collected.







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