New Delhi, June 30 -- India needs to focus on preventive healthcare to reduce the growing disease burden, said experts gathered in New Delhi ahead of National Doctors Day on Tuesday.
"If preventive healthcare becomes a way of life, a large proportion of lifestyle and seasonal diseases can be prevented. Prevention is always more effective than cure," said Dr G. C. Khilnani, Chairman of Delhi-based PSRI Institute of Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine, at an event organised by Illness to Wellness Foundation in New Delhi.
Stressing the role of prevention, he added that regular health check-ups, balanced nutrition, physical activity, vaccination where appropriate, good hygiene and timely medical consultation are simple yet powerful inte...