The National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) is working with various medical councils to introduce concepts such as rising heat and damaging air quality and their effects in medical education and the training of medical personnel in India.
The NCDC has roped in the National Medical Council, the dental council, Ayush, the nursing council and the pharmacy council, among others, for this purpose. Medical schools will also have to teach students about environmental health – a decades-old plea that has unfortunately been ignored so far.
Experts at the two-day-long national workshop on heat wave 2023 at IIT Bombay that concluded on Tuesday gave example of the Ahmedabad model in this context. Last year, Ahmedabad became the first city in India to develop a ‘health action plan’, which includes an early warning system and a preparedness plan.
Highlighting the Ahmedabad model, Mahaveer Golechha, associate professor at the Indian Institute of Public Health, Gandhinagar, said while looking at the all-causes mortality data, public health researchers found a rise in deaths in May.
Experts at the workshop acknowledged that the intensity of heat waves would increase and it was important to reduce its impact on health, the ecology and the economy.
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