Srinagar, August 21:
Under its initiative for health and wellbeing, the JK News Today Saturday launched ‘Aap Ki Khatir’, a live interactive session by Dr Harshdeep Joshi in Kashmir.
The initiative was launched with the theme ‘Health – our most cherished possession’ during a function organised at Nun Kun restaurant at Boulevard, Srinagar.
‘Aap Ki Khatir’ is a live counseling and interactive session for community wellness, especially focusing on the issues concerning the youth.
Speaking about the initiative, Dr Harshdeep Joshi, a renowned doctor in community medicine, said that the live session would focus on self-healing, comforting stressful situations, and overcoming anxiety.
“With the theme that we have chosen, we will also talk about obesity which is a growing epidemic now,” Dr Joshi said.
She said that obesity had an impact on the overall health and had a risk factor for hypertension, diabetes, and heart disease.
“We have come up with the programme to be the companion of youth in their loneliness. To fulfill this mission we will interact with them, counsel them, get them out of depression and other issues,” she said.
Briefing about the initiative, she recalled her work in Punjab and other states where she and the team had to work to overcome the menace of drug addiction.
“In Punjab, addiction was becoming a burning issue and we got an opportunity to work on it,” she said.
Dr Joshi said that they successfully beat the menace of addiction by counselling students and other community members to get rid of the addiction to a large extent.
“We were awarded the President’s Medal for our work,” she said.
Talking about the launch of the initiative in J&K, Dr Joshi said that the first live session of ‘Aap Ki Khatir’ was held in Jammu on June 7, 2022.
(Courtesy Greater Kashmir)
