The inspiration……
came while doing my Ayurveda internship in India at a working college hospital where they ran regular health camps. These ran periodically, each one emphasising on a certain illness or disease eg. Diabetes, Hypertension, Eczema etc. People came from all over to attend these camps so they could get useful information and also meet doctors and students from the hospital. I attended one with the Dean of SDM College, Dr. Prasanna Rao and his wife Dr Shailaja, and was so impressed of what I saw that day. I had thought of starting something similar when I returned home to the UK which never happened till now.
Then from the darkness of Covid 19, this came alive. The increase in mental health issues across the globe has reached its highest than we have ever seen. On a recent training with the Samaritans I learnt of the dramatic rise in suicide rates since lock-down which fortified the need to start this form of camp centring around mental health issues. I also realised for it to succeed it had to be a program that is free, diverse in its delivery and inclusive in its approach. And so the journey began……
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