Name: Awareness Campaign On World Cancer Day
Date: 2020-02-04
Venue: Community Health Centre, Bisrakh
Description:
Cancer is leading cause of death worldwide. World Cancer Day is an International Day marked on February 4th every year to raise awareness of cancer and to encourage its prevention, detection and treatment. World Cancer Day is led by The Union for International Cancer Control to support the goals of the World Cancer Declaration, written in 2008.
The theme for World Cancer Day- 2020 is “I am and I will”. It is an empowering call-to-action urging for personal commitment and represents the power of individual action taken now to impact the future. As a part of the theme, an awareness campaign in the form of Rally was organised by Metro College of Nursing, Greater Noida on World Cancer Day on 4th February, 2020 with a view that whoever you are, your actions- big or small, will make lasting and positive change because progress is possible.
Awareness
is the best tool to fight this disease. So, a Rally was organised by The Community Health Nursing Department
ofMetro College of Nursing from CHC- Bisrakh covering the
whole Bisrakh Village to generate awareness about the
symptoms and importance of early detection of Cancer. The participants in the
Rally were B.Sc. Nursing Students, A.N.M students, Faculty Supervisors, Medical
Officer and other staff members of Community Health Centre, Bisrakh.