Webinar on Polio Asthama

BULLETIN OF Rotary CLUB OF calcUtta victoria | RI district 3291 Vol 28 | No 6 Saturday, October 3, 2020 President: GAYATREE Dhar • Secretary: SEEMA Danda • Editor: CHHANDA Banerji • Jt. Editor: SACHIV Nijhawan Words of Wisdom: Laughter Yoga Laughter Yoga is a unique concept for was appointed. Result showed there was so- laughing for no reason with child like aban- cial bonding. Single members met up with don said Rtn Amitava Chatterjee, guest others and felt happier. Frequent phone speaker for RCCV’s regular meeting on Sat- calls to hospitals for various illnesses, some urday 12th September 2020. He referred to of which were imaginary, decreased con- a popular video by Dr Madan Kataria where siderably. Laughing without inhibition fol- he conducts Laughing Yoga Sessions every lowed by chit-chat supported by some fun Monday, Wednesday and Friday on Zoom, events improved the mental health of the which are very popular, with participants Mr Chatterjee’s Rotary Club was responsible participants for they all enjoyed. Mr Amita- doing the exercises, clapping continuously for organizing one such programme in Sin- va Chatterjee suggested that this could be and laughing for about 15 minutes. gapore where he was posted for a number a very good community service project for Laughter exercises with breathing enables of years. They found it to be beneficial. Club senior citizens. PP Mukul Mittra mentioned more Oxygen to circulate in the body and members chose thirty elderly people from that there is a Government sponsored Geri- brain. It has therapeutic effect. This is based housing colonies between the age of 60-95 atric Care Centre in Salt Lake where such a on scientific fact. The brain cannot distin- years who were all lonely. 24 sessions were programme can be planned. Mr Amitava guish between actual and fake laughing. conducted. Hospitals were interested to see Chatterjee was introduced by Chhanda Ba- nerji and thanked by Sudipta Sen. Now, due to Covid-19 situation people are if medical parameters change. An instructor all stressed out so this will de-stress people and improve mental health. This therapy is especially good for seniors who are lonely, have very little to do and often have demen- tia. It improves blood pressure and controls Webinar on Polio asthama. On Sunday 20th September 2020 the regular ma, around Menoka Cinema, and also around meeting of the club was merged with a we- Ward 69 as an awareness campaign. 25 post- binar on Polio – a district event, hosted by ers were fixed at the back of rickshaws with RCCV. This year because of the pandemic, po- the same message. President Gayatree Dhar lio booths were not operative except one or took the initiative in a big way for this proj- two at the Borough Offices. Polio drops were ect. At the webinar, President Gayatree Dhar Rotary Meeting on ZOOM administered door to door by KMC workers welcomed everyone and in her address men- during the polio week from 20th to 26th Sep- tioned this and also thanked IPP B K Agarwal, Guest Speaker tember. 20th September being the first day PP Vinita Dutt and PP Sarah Macwan for as- of SNID 85 posters with the message ‘Fight sisting her in the awareness drive. Dr Prithvish Nag to End Polio’ were put up in Lake Garden President then handed over the proceedings will speak on Mapping of India. area, Golf Green, Jodhpur Park, New Alipore, to PP Sarah Macwan, Chair ‘End Polio Now’ Prince Anwar Shah Road uptil Navina Cine- continued on page 2 2 • • VOICE OF VICTORIA • NO 6 • saturday, october 3, 2020 Webinar on Polio to conduct the proceedings. Sarah Macwan said that we cannot let our guards down as there are many dangers of the Polio virus coming back again. On her request District Governor Sudip Mukherjee addressed the gathering who mentioned that RID 3291 is doing a wonderful job in containing Polio. PDG Debasish Mitra District Membership Chair (DMC), who was invited to speak next was introduced by PP Capt Arnab Sen. He stated that not only in Kolkata, but even clubs in the districts like Murshidabad are ry then decided to start this programme all tive, fearing impotency. So local Imam’s help doing a very good job. In spite of the pan- over the world and gradually involved WHO was sought. One seminar was held and NID’s demic, couple of children had turned up to and other organisations to join in. India was every quarter organised. But response was receive the precious TWO drops. This showed declared Polio Free on 27-03-2014 and till 20%. Planned medical camps with free medi- that there is still a lot of enthusiasm. We, in today no case has so far been detected. Ro- cines and dry snacks did the trick. Toilets were India have to be on guard as our neighbour- tarians initially used to work very hard bring- constructed on a war footing. The mothers ing countries, Pakistan and Afghanistan are ing vaccines, maintaining cold chain, serving asserted themselves and for a change the fa- NOT polio free. He said Rotary took a pledge refreshment to health workers etc. Now ad- thers took a back seat. Soon children started NOT to undertake any other worldwide proj- vocacy in important. Health department of coming for Polio drops. Today Murshidabad is ect until the world is totally POLIO FREE. He the government has taken over so we need polio free like rest of India. showed a video on Polio and stated that with only to fill the gaps.U ttam Ganguly then PP Sarah Macwan thanked him and gave her Global Partners like UNICEF, WHO, respective spoke about those days in the 1990s when he concluding remarks. federal and state governments, Melinda and along with RIPE Shekhar Mehta and few oth- Bill Gates Foundation, expenditure on Polio ers visited very remote areas of Murshidabad PP Rakesh Macwan, Director International has crossed USD 2 billion. India has contrib- where there were cases of Polio. Conditions Service gave the vote of thanks. He special- uted USD 199 million including generous there were really pathetic. One tube well for ly thanked all the club presidents who had contributions from L N Mittal, Rajashree Birla, 1000 people, no proper sanitation, no place joined the webinar, PP A. Haider from Mur- Ambanis, Ratan Tata. Religious leaders have to have proper meal. A small room for a fam- shidabad and PP Data Magfur from Dhaka, now been involved. Teams of few inspired ily of 10, children suffering from skin disease Bangladesh, RID 3281. Rtn Data Magfur in- people dedicated to the cause can change and then strong resistance towards polio vited everyone especially RCCV member to the world, he concluded. vaccine. Minority groups were non co-opera- visit Dhaka. PDG Uttam Ganguly the second speaker of the evening who had been polio chair for Public Image many years, was introduced by Club Secre- Exercise on Polio Programme tary PP Seema Danda. He spoke about the creator of the first Polio vaccine virologist Dr Jonus salk who dreamt about making the planet polio free. In 1955 USA was badly af- fected by polio and Dr Salk’s vaccine was a God send. In spite of not being a rich man, he did not apply for a patent which would have made him richer by 7 million dollars. When asked who owned the patent, he replied “Well, the people I would say”. He wanted people from all strata of society to benefit from this vaccine. Later live oral polio vaccine was made by Albert Sabin in 1961. In 1986-87, RIP M.A.T. Caparas launched a pilot project in Phillipines which was a huge success. Rota- saturday, october 3, 2020 • NO 6 • VOICE OF VICTORIA • • 3 Happy Birthday! Dr Prithvish Nag was national level and had been associated with Ravindra Tantia • 29th Sep the former vice Chancel- several universities and national bodies. Roopa Sheth Mitra • 6th Oct lor of several Universi- Recipient of numerous awards, Dr Nag, has ties, namely i) Mahatma considerable, experience in digital map- Vibha Mehta • 7th Oct Gandhi Kashi Vidhapith, ping, population mapping, data manage- Varanasi, ii) DDU Gor- ment system, geospatial programme and Sarah Macwan • 13th Oct akhpur University, iii) Sampurnanand San- other related fields. skrit Viswavidyalaya, Varanasi, iv) Rajarshi Dr Nag just retired from the faculty of Geoin- Tandon Open University, Allahabad, Uttar formatics and Disaster management from Pradesh. IIT (BHU). AnniversaryWishes He is a gold medalist from BHU, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, London. Arvind Agrawal & Rumana Recipient of Common wealth Bursary, by 14th October Royal Geographical Society. He did his PhD on planning and development of Zambia on an appeal from President Dr V V Giri. Authored/edited over 135 papers and 77 books, and delivered prestigious lecturers in In- dia and abroad. From an early age he had experience of digital mapping and remote sensing. He is former surveyor General of India and was a UN Consultant in Oman. He has held Book on Zoological garden of Kolkata being posts of Chairman in various committees presented to Shri Pranab Mukherjee, late Pres- and commissions both at National and Inter- ident of India by Dr Prithvish Nag Minutes of the 1252nd Regular Meeting of Rotary Club of Calcutta Victoria held on Saturday, 12th September, 2020 at 12:00 noon on ZOOM n President Gayatree Dhar called the with Rotary club of Mahanagar. It nant women. She will look after their 1252nd meeting to order. was on Literacy. RI President elect well being, medicines , food supple- n National Anthem was played and all Rtn Shekhar Mehta was the main ments & health.

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