New Delhi: COVID-19 stays in the body for 9 days and, prevention is the answer. While everyone is taking precautions we need to question ourselves “So what” said Dr. K. K. Aggarwal, Former President, Indian Medical Association in the 10th Meeting of managing committee (MCM) of PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

Dr. K. K. Aggarwal while deliberating about the various facts related to COVID-19, said that we need to understand the word “So what” which will help to come out from the fear of this virus. COVID-19 stays in the body for only 9 days. By the time, one gets diagnosed with COVID; it’s the 7th day and, one needs to struggle for some days to remove it from the body. After 9 days, one is in the post-COVID phase of life. It doesn’t get transmitted between children to children and, if any child has COVID, after 3-4 days the symptoms disappear.

Our death mortality rate is less than the active cases:

Dr. K. K. Aggarwal mentioned that our death mortality rate is less than the active cases. People are having deaths as they get tested late or, they miss the symptom of pneumonia that happens between the 3rd-5th day that causes seriousness. So, timely diagnoses are essential for COVID. He further informed that people with loss of taste or smell, stomach aches, eye infection, fever, and other minor diseases are prone to mild COVID that can be cured with medications. He said that we don’t need to get scared in moving outside but, we need to wear masks, maintain social distancing, and sit in different directions.

We need to have proper ventilation in the rooms and washrooms in our offices. An Air purifier with 10 exchanges per hour and a microfilter can help in preventing COVID-19 transmission. For the organization, Dr. K. K. Aggarwal recommended doing pool testing that will easily help to diagnose if a person among the group of people has COVID-19. This has been performed by various countries around the world. For public dealing, it’s essential to wear an N-95 mask, sanitize one properly; and don’t have an eye to eye contact.

Dr. K. K. Aggarwal said that people who are old, they shouldn’t do face-to-face meetings. They should take their medications for BP and other medicines and use blood thinners, as prescribed by their physicians. He suggested simple exercises for strengthening lungs that include blowing balloons, blowing bubbles in water via a straw, and many more. One should maintain a high protein diet by eating all 7 colored vegetables.

Dr. D K Aggarwal, President, PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry in his presidential address graced the presence of Dr. K. K. Aggarwal and lauded his contribution towards India’s medical sciences. He further deliberated about the fear of COVID-19 in the lives of people and the lack of knowledge about it. He raised questions regarding the precautions to be taken, how to respond to COVID-19, and remove our fear. He further talked about diligent social work and contributions to the PM CARES Fund by various members towards supporting the government and nation in mitigating COVID-19.

Other senior members who interacted with Dr. K. K. Aggarwal from the senior management were Mr. Sanjay Aggarwal, Senior Vice President, PHD Chamber; Mr. Binay Kumar, Former President, PHD Chamber; Mr. R K Samany Former President, PHD Chamber; Mr. Sandeep Marwah, Managing Committee Member, PHD Chamber; Mr. Lalit Khaitan, Chairman, Economic Affair Committee, PHD Chamber; Mr. Sanjay Bhatia Former President, PHD Chamber; Mr. Gopal Jiwarajka, Former President, PHD Chamber; Mr. Sandeep Marwah, Managing Committee Member, PHD Chamber; Ms. Swati Mittal, Managing Committee Member, PHD Chamber, and others. The session witnessed the presence of other senior leaders and members of PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

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New Delhi: PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry jointly with Economic and Trade Mission, Embassy of Israel in India hosted an interactive webinar on “Digital Health: The Future Series II- Bridging the Gap: AI’s Role in Combating Inequalities in Health” recently.

Integrate technology with the healthcare industry:

Dr. N. Subramanian, Chairman, Health Committee, PHD Chamber & Director, Medical Services, Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals in his welcome address highlighted the importance of integrating technology with the healthcare industry. He deliberated that medical devices with the latest technology help to monitor our health and Mobile technology, AI in Medical Health care equipment gives a tremendous opportunity to health care services moving forward. He gave various examples of companies that are evolving themselves in the healthcare industry. The numerous benefits of digital healthcare are more on reducing cost, more efficient, improving access, and increasing quality care leading to precision medicine.

Dr. Subramanian further added that the rate of digital health utilisation in last 6 months was more than the last 14 years. There were more than 52% medical opinion done on web browsing, more than 72% appointments are given online now a days. He has mentioned that the most important area of AI is in precision medicine and AI can bring down 60% of investment cost in drug development. He has also mentioned that AI is not only for the predictive health of people but also for the requirement of health mechanism to tackle the pandemics.

He deliberated about the upcoming healthcare trends that include advances in telemedicine; the internet of things (IOT); computing in health; augmented virtual reality; artificial intelligence (AI); chat-box; data science; productive analysis and block chain. These will contribute to a growing opportunity in the healthcare industry. He has mentioned that developed economy like US is using 15% of digital health and there is a way to go for country like India in digital solutions in healthcare.

Sharing of health data of public and Pvt hospitals:

Mr. Mahendra Singh,expert member for digital Health, AI Health, Telemedicine & Innovation, WHO Global Digital Health, WHO Geneva while emphasizing the importance of digital health said, sharing of health data of public and Pvt hospitals critical to development of digital health in India and it can go a long way in forecasting and managing pandemics and added that it should be done in framework of the Indian regulations and data protection act. He said the goal is to have accessible and affordable health for all but on the input side we need to have a lot of standardisation and structuring of the data. He further added that for digital healthcare, the need is to have a collaborative approach of all stakeholders and technology by itself will not be enough to reduce in equalities in healthcare delivery

Mr. Rani Shifron digital health specialist and founder of  Healthier Globe, Israel, while deliberating on the topic, mentioned that the critical requirement is to create the technologies and quickly take them across the globe and and the distinct advantage which digital  technologies is concerned is that it does not take too long for it to share and spread. He presented the digital health ecosystem in Israel and shared that any such initiative has to have the Will of the Govt to make it a success which is what has happened in Israel. He discussed the need to bring medical technology into the rural area to be able to provide healthcare in remote areas. He also shared that the best way to collaborate with Israeli companies would be through the Israel India Collaboration body while direct options are also available.

Dr Pankaj Gupta HOD, Digital Health, Access Health International said that during this pandemic, we see the acceleration and the adoption of digital technology in healthcare due to Covid 19 in India and Telemedicine has taken off very well. Technologies that have worked right have led to better results and are being used clinically starting from remote doctor check-up to other solutions. He mentioned that the data quality and governance are major challenges to the growth of the Industry. He emphasized the need for creating an eco-system for digital health technology by bringing them to the market. He emphasized the importance of Artificial Intelligence, mobile, cloud in digital health. He deliberated about the work done by Access Health International in promoting digital health.

Mr. Saurabh Sanyal, Secretary-General, PHD Chamber, delivered a formal vote of thanks to all the esteemed panellists and participants. The webinar was moderated by Mr. Vivek Seigell, Principal Director, PHD chamber with his inputs related to digital and said that this webinar will create opportunities for Indian and Israel companies to work together on this area of  health industry.

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New Delhi: PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry organized a Video Interaction on the topic “Stay Fit At Home” recently. The objective of the interaction was  to discuss importance of being fit in the current scenario when most of the people are working from home.

The panel discussion consisted of esteemed industry stalwarts from all arenas including Mr Paddy Upton, Mr. Yatinder Singh, Mr World 2015, Mr Asia 2018, Mr India (3 times); Ms Soumya Gupta, Sr. Nutritionist with Rujuta Diwekar; Mr. John Victor, CEO & Clinical Psychologist, Mind Solace, Ms Priya Sachdeva Kapur, Group director, corporate communications internal and external of SONA Group; Dr HS Tiwari, Medical Advisor, Multani Pharmaceuticals Limited and Ms Rica Roy, Deputy Editor NDTV who was also the moderator of the panel discussion.

Mr Paddy Upton shared that athletes with whom he is interacting are having divers experience of the current situation. Athletes who have managed themselves very well during the lockdown will perform extremely well when they get back on the field as compared to the athletes who didn’t maintain their physical health and mental health. Athletes who are already established are having a good time during this break with their families but young athletes who are yet to establish themselves are a bit down as they are not getting the opportunity to perform.

Mr Yatinder Singh shared his experience and said like everyone else he has also realized the importance of mental fitness during the lockdown. He said for staying fit a mix of physical fitness, mental fitness and emotional fitness is very important. Proper sleep is also important to maintain good immunity. He also mentioned that the best time to work out is early in the morning. If we work out late in the night then it will take around 3 hours for the blood flow to become normal so one should avoid it.

Ms Somya Gupta said staying healthy and staying fit should be an everlasting thought. We should not limit ourselves to stay fit just for the lockdown period. She said good habits make good health, and good health makes good immunity. She advised on taking a mixture of boiled water with ginger,  lime grass and  jaggary/honey/sugar which in between the meals which will take care of throat and conjunction. She also advised on having kichri for dinner with ghee and achar because this combination is a very good immunity booster.

Mr. John Victor said people are taking more time to finish their work during the lockdown which is increasing the stress and people are not able to sleep properly. People in India have pushed their sleep time, earlier most of the people use to sleep by 11pm and now they have started sleeping at 1am and later. The current lockdown and work from home situation sleep cycle of many people is affected and there has been an increase in the sale of sleeping pills.

Ms Priya Sachdev Kapur spoke on how people are suffering from anxiety issues during the lockdown. She said when people are exercising then they should avoid using earphones and screens as it disturbs the concentration and one cannot focus proper on what they are doing. She also said that young mothers should have turmeric and ginger and they should also drink lots of water, do meditation, breathing exercise which will help them in maintain their fitness.

Dr HS Tiwari, Medical Advisor, Multani Pharmaceuticals Limited explained how Ayurveda is helping to boost immunity. There should be daily routines to be followed as per the Ayurveda. Rasiana (immunity boaster process) should be followed for healthy body.  He said many Ayurvedic products like chyawanprash and ayushkwath should be taken to maintain a healthy lifestyle.

Mr Pradeep Multani, Vice President PHDCCI in his welcome address deliberated that we are spending a lot more time at home than we might like, which is why staying as physically active as possible is more important than ever. If people don’t have a fitness plan at home, they will become sedentary and that will affect their health. He said many people exercise in a gym or go for a run in a local park, so being forced to spend long periods of time at home is going to pose a challenge for remaining active.

Mr Arshad Nizam Shawl, Chairman Sports & Youth Affairs committee PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry gave a brief about the work done by the committee. He said with work from home increasing, people are working more hours from home and working late, therefore, staying fit and strong should be the mindset that we should have as low physical activity can be a challenge.

Ms Rica Roy, Deputy Editor NDTV moderated the entire session. She also mentioned that Covid-19 has made the industry work for 12 to 14 hours a day. For precautions people are not using computer systems, headphones, microphones which are used by their colleagues.

Ms Priya Hingorani, Co Chairperson Sports & Youth Affairs Committee gave the concluding remarks and thanked the speakers and delegates who attended the session. She said even if we are stuck at home, there are ways we can stay active and continue your workout routine – and some of these require very little or no equipment.

The session was attended by Mr. Saurabh Sanyal, Secretary-General, PHD Chamber; Mr Satish Girotra, Co Chairman Sports & Youth Affairs Committee PHD Chamber;  Dr Jatinder Singh, Director PHD Chamber who also moderated the session in between and by many senior members of PHD Chamber. The interaction received extensive participation of a diverse audience from all over India.

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