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And teachers find HIV ?masterji?
RENU BAJAJ is a chemistry teacher at Loreto Convent. Amitabh Agnihotri teaches algebra-trigonometry-logarithms at La Martinere Boys? College. And Delhi Public School?s Anuj Chaturvedi teaches commerce and maths. But all the three and many more teachers from different schools will teach biology?-and more precisely about a virus to their students on July 28..
RENU BAJAJ is a chemistry teacher at Loreto Convent. Amitabh Agnihotri teaches algebra-trigonometry-logarithms at La Martinere Boys’ College. And Delhi Public School’s Anuj Chaturvedi teaches commerce and maths. But all the three and many more teachers from different schools will teach biology—-and more precisely about a virus to their students on July 28..
Most of these teachers’ knowledge about the subject they are going to teach was not very good at 4 pm. But by 6 pm they were better as they had a new Masterji and a school. It’s Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Science (SGPGIMS) that’s playing school to these teachers, and Professor G Choudhuri, the head of the department of Gastroenterology, SGPGIMS is the Masterji. The subject is Hepatitis B virus.
Donning his doctor’s apron and using the ‘down key’ of the laptop to run the slides of the PowerPoint presentation on the Hepatitis B virus, Masterji began teaching to the teachers under his HOPE Initiative programme.
Renu Bajaj, too, once visited the website. And it is the website that has pulled her to take up making her students aware about the dreaded virus. So, till 28 she is taking a kind of break from chemical reactions, periodical tables etc. She looked enthusiastic getting hold of Hepatitis B virus.
And the Masterji emphasized as to why it’s important for schools to join in the awareness campaign. He said: “The number of Hepatitis B virus carriers in India is over 4 crore. And 40 of every 1,000 students would be a carrier of this virus if screened for the Hepatitis B virus.”
He, while discussing the disease exclaimed to the teachers: “The unique symptom of this disease is that a person might not even know that he is infected for as long as 20 years! Persons infected may not experience any symptom, and unknowingly might pass on the disease to others. The transmission of the disease is through infected blood, body fluids and from mother to child.”
Since the disease is both preventable and treatable, the awareness programme on it is relevant.
So, on July 28—the Hepatitis B Day—at least 15 schools in Lucknow simultaneously will run classes, by these teachers. And these teachers being trained under HOPE’s ‘Train the trainer’ programme will make them experts on the disease.
This is going to be the biggest ever organised awareness campaign against any disease in so many schools on a single day. Loreto Convent, La Martiniere college (both girls and boys), St Agnes, St Paul’s, DPS (Eldeco), Colvin Taluqdar, Kendriya Vidyalaya SGPGIMS, three branches of CMS etc will run the programme.
The show on 28th will be “Beware of the silent killer”.
