National Doctors Day 2015
National Doctors day 2015 would be celebrated by the people all over the India on 1st of July, at Wednesday.
Doctors Day
National Doctors day in India is a big awareness campaign offering
great opportunities to all to get aware about the roles, importance and
responsibilities of the doctors as well as promote medical professionals
to come closer and follow the responsibilities of their profession very
dedicatedly. This day is celebrated in the memory of Dr. Bidhan Chandra
Roy in order to pay honor to the entire medical profession.
National Doctors Day History and Why National Doctors Day is celebrated on 1st of July
Doctor’s Day in India was established by the Government of India in 1991 to be recognized and celebrated every year on 1st of July as National Doctors day. It is celebrated on 1st
of July on the birth and death anniversary of the most famous physician
of India Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy (Dr. B C Roy) to pay lots of honor and
tribute. He was honored with the great Indian civilian award called
Bharat Ratna on 4th of February in 1961. He was born on 1st
of July in 1882 in the Patna, Bihar. He had completed his medical
graduation from Calcutta and returned to the India in 1911 after
completing his MRCP and FRCS degrees in London and began his medical
career as a physician in India in the same year.
Later he joined the Calcutta Medical College as a teaching staff and
afterward he moved to the Campbell Medical School and then to Carmichael
Medical College. He was a most famous physician and renowned
educationist as well as a freedom fighter as he joined the Mahatma
Gandhi during Civil Disobedience Movement. Later he became Indian
National Congress leader and then Chief Minister of the West Bengal. He
passed away on his birthday means 1st of July in 1962, after
80 years of his great service in this world. Behind his name, Dr. B. C.
Roy National Award was instituted in the year 1976 to pay honor, respect
and tribute.
Why National Doctors Day Is Celebrated
National doctors day is celebrated every year all across the India on 1st of July to provide honor to the most famous and legendary physician as well as 2nd Chief Minister of the West Bengal, Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy.
It is a great observance in India which helps in fulfilling the
actual need of doctors and physicians in the lives of everyone as well
as their significant roles and responsibilities. The annual celebration
of this awareness campaign helps common public to get aware about the
roles, importance and the precious care of the doctors.
Large population crowd of the India depends in many ways on the
physicians and their quality treatments which show the remarkable
improvements and progress in the cure and treatments methods. Annual
celebration of the doctors day has been proved as a way of encouragement
and big eye opener for all the physicians and doctors of the India to
wake up from their failing career due to the lack of commitment towards
their profession.
Sometimes common and poor people get stuck in the wrong hand of
irresponsible and unprofessional doctors which becomes the reason of
public violence and protests against those doctors. This awareness
campaign is the great way of attracting all the doctors and physicians
at one place to bring them at one track of responsibility towards the
life saving medical profession.
National doctors day celebration has been marked as the day of
respect for entire professional doctors who have made their great
efforts in saving the life of patients. Doctors day means a whole day
which has been dedicated to the medical profession especially for
doctors and physicians to commemorate their efforts and roles. It is a
day to say them vote of thanks for their love, affection and priceless
care of their patients.
National Doctors Day Celebration
National doctors day is being celebrated for years by the government
and non-government healthcare organizations in order to get familiar
with the doctors contributions. Staff of the healthcare organizations
organizes variety of events and activities for the campaign celebration.
“Rotary Club of the North Calcutta and North East Calcutta Social &
Welfare Organization” organizes big event every year for the grand
celebration of the doctors day.
A discussion program is organized to discuss about the various
aspects of medical profession such as health check-up, cure, prevention,
diagnosis, proper treatment of the disease and so many. Rotational
medical services by the doctors are also promoted and encouraged in the
community for better and healthy social development. Free medical
checkup camps are organized at many health centers and public places by
the health care organizations to promote quality medical services
without cost among common public.
General screening test camps are also organized to assess the health
status, health counseling, health nutrition talks and chronic diseases
awareness among poor people and senior citizens. Free blood test, random
blood sugar test, ECG, EEG, blood pressure checkup and etc activities
are organized to aware people about the priceless roles of doctors in
everyone lives.
Some of the activities at the schools and colleges level are also
organized for encouraging more youth students toward the dedicated
medical profession. Discussion on the medical topics, quiz competitions,
sports activities, availing scientific tools to students for the
creative knowledge, implementing new and effective educational
strategies for making the medical profession strong and more
responsible.
On the 1st of July patients greet their doctors by
distributing greeting cards, appreciation cards, Ecards, giving them
bunch of flowers or bouquets, greeting messages through the mails and
etc. Special meetings, party and dinner are organized at the health
centers, hospitals, nursing homes or at homes by the doctors in order to
commemorate importance of day and contributions of doctors towards
medical profession.
