Public Awareness Programme
Public Awareness Committee of BOGS organized 7 Public Awareness Programs on “Adolescence Health Issues” under the able leadership of Dr Pradip Kumar Mitra, Past President, BOGS, covering three districts i.e. Kolkata, Howrah & 24-Parg (N). A brief report of the same is as follows:
1) On 4rth July: Haryana Vidya Mandir (English Medium School), Salt Lake, Kolkata (2 sessions). Both the sessions were conducted by Dr Pradip Kumar Mitra. Other esteemed BOGS faculty panel members were Dr Abinash Chandra Ray, Dr Bulbul Raichaudhuri, Dr Saktirupa Chakraborty, Dr Bipasa Sen and Dr Suranjan Chakrabarti .
2) On 5th July : Howrah Shiksha Sadan Girls’ School & Ramkrishna Balika Vidhalaya ( Hindi Medium),Howrah(3 sessions) : Dr Nirmala Pipara , Dr Anisha Chowdhury & Dr Basab Mukherjee,Hony Secretary, BOGS had joined as faculty.
3) On 10th July : St Xavier’s Institution(English Medium) ,24 Parg(N).(2 sessions) Dr Rumina Bagchi had joined as panellist. Video recording of entire program was done.
Public Awareness Programme on Adolescence Health issues were confined on 10 basic issues with special emphasis on Menstrual hygiene, Nutrition, White discharge, Endometriosis, PCOS, Ca Cx prevention with vaccine etc . Another ,a bit different & controversial but highly applauded area of discussion was on sex education for both boys & girls, contraception and how to avoid ‘falling prey to sexual disasters’. All the sessions were held in question answer format with power point presentation for 45 -60 minutes, followed by interactions with the students & teachers. Altogether 1750 girl students from class VIII –XII with their Principal & teachers had attended and interacted with BOGS faculties. In fact everywhere we were flooded with interesting questions and earnestly requested by Principal/Headmistress to conduct similar session/special sessions for teachers only in the same and nearby schools with more time.
Lastly the devotion to this type of PA program by BOGS faculty members is highly encouraging.
