Campaigns

02/05/02 Location: Ladakh Buddhist Association, Leh. Series of lectures, attended by around 1000 lamas and nuns, by Dr Norboo in co-operation with government health department. Topics covered included: hypertension, diabetes, obesity, diet, and stomach cancer.

17/04/04 Location: Lamdon Higher Secondary School, Leh. Health awareness program, lecture given by Dr. Norboo and attended by nearly 300 students. Topics covered : Introduction to series of Lectures on Health and environment in future.

26/4/04 Girls Higher Secondary School Leh, Introductory lecture on series of talks to be given in schools on Health and environment principal, the staff and students participated.

15/5/04 Mahabodhi High School Choglamsar: A lecture on prevention of air - pollution - tobacco smoking - passive smoking - environmental and occupational air pollution. 150 students and teachers participated in a lively discussion following the talk.

22/05/04 Location: Moravian Mission School, Leh. (Forenoon) Health awareness program, lecture and slide presentation given by Dr. Norboo and attended by nearly 100 students. Topics covered: prevention or air pollution in home, workplace, institutions and open environment (dust pneumoconiosis prevalence), tobacco history, constituents and prevalence of smoking, nicotine addiction, withdrawal syndrome, short and long term effects of tobacco, cessation program, counciling, passive smoking, tobacco advertisement and other strategies of tobacco companies.

29/5/04 Islamia school Leh - Health awareness programme on clean air and prevention of air pollution. About 100 students participated. Dr. Norboo Lecture was followed by lively discussion by Students and teachers.

6/7/04 A well planned health check up cum high altitude resident physical appearance study cum treatment clinic and health education drive was conducted on 6th and 7th July, at Hanley. 200 subjects were studied in detail. The findings finally analysed will be beneficial for planning remedies for common health problems of this area. This area has been experiencing water and food borne disease in epidemic form - this time we investigated into this epidemic - Entero - haemorrhagic E-coli infection. Samples of drinking water from different sources were taken for bacterial and mineral content analysis. Health education was mainly devoted to hygiene of food, food handlers and surroundings.

25-29/8/04 Under the joint supervision of Dr. Otsuka Kuniaki professor Tokyo women university and Venble T. Chogyal and Dr. T. Norboo consultant Physician LHF & LIP; a detailed health check up of senior citizens of age group 50 and above, young men and women between 20-49 was held on the above mentioned four days. After registration a detailed questionnaire regarding life style, sleep pattern, depression and view on health. Height, weight, measurement for BMI, Blood pressure measurement in sitting, supine and standing position twice each time; were done. Then the senior citizens were carried through series of cognitive function and joint and spine mobility tests like up and go test - functional reach test - button score and kohs test, SpO2 and Heart rate and time estimation test. Finally all of them under went ECG and Pulse Wave Velocity (PWV) and Ankle Brachial Index test (ABI) for finding the status of Aortic stiffness. These battery of tests done on 230 subjects in four days was the first of its kind in Ladakh organised by L H F and LIP through kind courtesy of Dr. Otsuka Kuniaki and his dedicated team is an important milestone in preventive medicine. This data will be analysed and the observation will be utilized to educate the people in prevention and promotion of health of the population. This will now on be a continuous activity of L H F and LIP.