Marc Koska OBE, (the British artist of the single-use auto-disable syringe), calm with his alms SafePoint UK, is embarking aloft a one-week life-saving healthcare apprenticeship mission to India on an astronomic and aberrant scale, starting 14 November 2008.
According to a contempo abstraction by Indian Clinical Epidemiology Network (IndiaCLEN), about 65% of injections administered in India are alarming – because they are performed with reused or unsterile equipment.
Health problems consistent from alarming injections worldwide, according to these anniversary abstracts from the World Health Organization, has accomplished catching proportions:
• 230,000 HIV infections
• 1,000,000 Hepatitis C infections
• 21,000,000 Hepatitis B infections
Resulting in:
• 1,300,000 deaths
Marc set up SafePoint Trust in 2006 to brainwash the accessible on the dangers of re-using syringes with its “One Injection, One Syringe” message, in adjustment to abate the misery, affliction and deaths accepting needlessly acquired through alarming injections.
On 14th November 2008, Marc will advance a SafePoint aggregation to India with the aim of allegorical hundreds of millions throughout that country of the baleful after-effects of re-using syringes, by agency of the SafePoint-produced accessible advice blur (or accessible account announcement) alleged ‘Sachin’. This is the affective story, anecdotal by Dr Kiran Bedi, the awful acclaimed Indian amusing activist, about Sachin - the little boy who affairs HIV through the reclaim of a syringe by his doctor. The blur leaves no agnosticism that blockage is bigger than cure.
Click actuality to watch the blur in English
Click actuality to watch the blur in Hindi
SafePoint claims that it will be the better media applicant throughout India for that anniversary (14-21 November 2008), accoutrement an incredible:
• 14 hours of prime TV advertisement above 23 channels
• Radio broadcasts from Dr Kiran Bedi spanning 160 cities, arena 28 times in each, authoritative a absolute of 4,480 broadcasts
• 307 cinemas that will awning ‘Sachin’ 4 times per day per cinema, authoritative a absolute of 8,596 screenings
In addition, the SafePoint team, breach into four groups, will authority circumstantial columnist conferences in Delhi, Hyderabad, Jaipur and Chandigarh, basic 14 November. In total, the teams will awning 14 regions over a arduous four days.
Preventing the adverse aftereffect that alarming injections accept on innocent people’s lives is the active force abaft Marc’s active campaign. SafePoint offers a band-aid to the botheration by allegorical the next bearing and by adopting acquaintance about this bashful epidemic. The charity’s educational campaigns on bang assurance accept the adventurous aim of ensuring that the 16 billion medical injections accustomed globally every year are accustomed safely.
Focused and amorous amusing entrepreneur, Marc Koska, who has already been accustomed with extenuative able-bodied over 5.5 actor lives through the apparatus of his auto-disable syringe, hopes that abounding added millions of lives will anon be adored as a aftereffect of his accessible attack in India. The attack is aswell accepted to accompany about above changes for the bigger in the way all-around healthcare is administered.
“We will be allurement the accessible and legislators of India to sit up and accept to our life-saving message,” says Marc. “We intend to both empower the humans of India by aperture their eyes to the dangers of reusing syringes, as able-bodied as to access appeal for the accomplishing of legislation in this field. This is ascendant to our campaign.”
Marc Koska, OBE
Inventor of the single-use auto-disable syringe, amusing entrepreneur, Marc Koska, is the architect of SafePoint Trust and was awarded the Order of the British Empre in 2006 for his addition to healthcare.
www.marckoska.com
Dr Kiran Bedi
Dr Kiran Bedi is an award-winning Indian amusing activist and one of the a lot of acclaimed and broadly accepted badge admiral of the Indian Police Force (now retired). She was awarded the Mother Teresa Memorial National Award for Social Justice in 2005.
www.kiranbedi.com
SafePoint Trust
SafePoint Trust is a registered UK alms that has the aim of analytic healthcare problems through education, predominantly in the developing apple and absorption on bang safety.
www.safepointtrust.org
For added information, amuse contact:
Ginny Simpson
SafePoint UK
The Granary
Pippingford
East Sussex
TN22 3HW
United Kingdom
Tel: + 44 (0)1825 713 722
Fax: + 44 (0)1825 713 838
Mob: +44 (0)7595 206923
Email: info@safepointtrust.org
Web: www.safepointtrust.org
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