CHENNAI: Chennaiites had the opportunity to get free health check-up and also expert medical advice at the
Arogyam health and fitness expo organised at the Chennai Trade Centre on Saturday.
Jointly organised by The New Indian Express and the Apollo Hospitals, this is the third edition of the two-day health expo and was inaugurated by Dr R Kannaiyan, senior consultant, Department of General Medicine, Apollo. ‘Sinthanai Sithar’ Almaa Velayutham, Chairman, Almaa Herbal Nature, was also present at the inauguration.
From seminars on ortho-related problems and Paleo diets to lifestyle tips to prevent diseases to a seminar by Almaa Velayutham on food and life, the public had the opportunity to get an insight into their own health and body.
Over 50 stalls were set up at the expo by various health organisations like Prashanth Fertility and Research Centre, Prime Indian Hospitals, Alma Siddha Hospital, Chettinad Health City among others. Besides free health checkup for blood pressure, sugar, fertility tests, dental checkups and eye tests, various stalls also offered their visitors coupons that can be used to get discounts and concession for further treatments. Many visitors showed great interest in the Siddha medicine stalls and seminars on how organic food and lifestyle choices could work better than regular painkillers and other drugs.
A majority of the visitors was sugar patients and patients suffering from gastro-related problems and also many frequented the fertility centres.
Dr Arun Kannan, consultant orthopedia, who addressed the seminar, said that one in five persons in the city suffers from knee problems and patients continue to be confused about whether it is essential to have a knee replacement surgery.
“The number of surgeries every day is increasing which shows that more people are becoming aware of the surgery but we still have to go a long way. Patients should know that after the surgery there is 97-99 percent chance that the patient can go back to a normal life,” he explained.
Besides lectures and stalls, the expo also boasts of yoga sessions and also a Zumba fitness dance studio. The second day of the expo on Sunday will start at 10.30 am. For more details, contact- 9282438120 or 978967626.
one in five persons in the city suffers from knee problems and patients continue to be confused about whether it is essential to have a knee replacement surgery. “The number of surgeries every day is increasing which shows that more people are becoming aware of the surgery but we still have to go a long way.
Patients should know that after the surgery there is 97-99 percent chance that the patient can go back to a normal life,” he explained. Besides lectures and stalls, the expo also boasts of yoga sessions and also a Zumba fitness dance studio. The second day of the expo on Sunday will start at 10.30 am. For more details, contact- 9282438120 or 978967626.