Sunday, April 18, 2010

Health Awareness Week at Technopark

Thiruvananthapuram: In a move to help information technology (IT) professionals cope with stress, engage in healthy eating habits and improve physical fitness, the Group of Technopark Companies (GTech) is organising a health awareness campaign from April 5 to 9 on the Technopark campus.

The programme, titled GTech Tech Life 2010, is being held in association with Technopark and the Kerala Institute of Medical Science (KIMS).

G. Vijayaraghavan, cardiologist, delivering the inaugural address of the event, exhorted the Technopark community to adopt a healthy lifestyle and strive for a work-life balance.

The programme includes interaction with doctors from KIMS, a session with Santhosh Babu, psychologist, and an entertainment programme by a Tamil playback singer, Karthik.

Each day of the programme will focus on a topic, such as heart, gastro, mind, hypertension and diabetes, and will have specialists discussing the various aspects pertaining to the topic of the day.

Mervin Alexander, Chief Executive Officer of Technopark, launched a web site, http://www.techlife.co.in, dedicated to the event.

Anoop Ambika, Secretary, GTech, spoke.

In a press note issued here, GTech said the overall objective of the event was to kick-start a healthy lifestyle movement on the campus.

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