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HSBC enhances nutrition awareness of students

HSBC organised an orientation programme on ‘nutrition and how to instill good eating habits’ for one hundred and fifty students and their families of Tirivanaketiya Vidyalaya, Ratnapura.

The programme was conducted by Nutrition Specialist and Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Medicine, Colombo, Dr. Angela De Silva recently at the school premises.

Understanding the importance of a healthy diet for improvement of growth and for physical well-being, this programme comes as an extension of the nutrition programme already implemented by HSBC since 2005.

In addition, the existing nutrition programme of providing free meals to students was further improved on this day with the inclusion of many nutritional food items such as milk, string hoppers (made of rice flour), gram and bananas. This also coincided with ‘Nutrition Month’ declared by the Ministry of Health.

Addressing the gathering, Dr. Angela De Silva advised the parents on how they can provide a well-balanced meal at a nominal cost by using produce they can grow or easily find in the local community. A key spokesperson of the Bank stated, ‘it is important to understand the nutrition value of food consumed as it will help nurture good eating habits.

This will also foster an understanding of how to make use of the produce that could be easily grown in the households and how each student could balance their meals in order to improve their productivity and mental and physical concentration’.

The Principal of Tirivanaketiya College, G M O Gunathilaka said, ‘HSBC have been with us for over four years and have extended their utmost support to the School by funding the refurbishment of our school buildings following the 2003 floods in Ratnapura.

Today’s programme has proved to be valuable for all students and parents.

HSBC launched the school’s first nutrition programme in 2005, where a glass of milk was given to students twice a week.

In August 2006, milk, buns, bananas, and nutrition supplements were also provided to students of the school.

The new nutrition programme was introduced upon receiving positive results of the previous programmes that benefited many students, encouraging them to attend school regularly, resulting in their all round development.

NCCSL Health Seminar

The Healthcare Committee of The National Chamber of Commerce of Sri Lanka (NCCSL) has organised a Health Seminar with presentations by two eminent medical personalities on the topics of “Renal/Kidney Diseases” and “Asthma/Lung Ailments” Prevention and Cure on July 23 at the NCCSL Chamber Auditorium.

The main objective of the seminar is to create awareness among the health conscious public, about the dangers/sufferings and the prevention and cure of these diseases. Thousands of people are affected by Renal/kidney diseases which are serious and fatal for life. Non attention to your personal health, life habits and negligence have brought misery to people.

Equally asthma/lung ailments have increased tremendously in recent past for negligence/life habits and due to polluted environment, climatic changes and lack of medical treatment that affect the patient.

These ailments are serious and dangerous health hazards to millions of people. Modern lifestyle today tends people to get afflicted with these ailments and current trends show that younger age groups are getting affected , specially the busy executives, who are at risk due to their bustling day to day activities with deadlines to meet and overworked and stressed out with no relaxation.

These presentations will be conducted by Prof. Rezvie Sheriff and Prof Shyam Fernando.

The Seminar will be beneficial to everyone who are concerned about their Health. There also will be an interactive session, where the Participants will be free to meet the Consultant Specialists and have a close dialogue with them.