Hyderabad (Telangana): A clinic functioning from the premises of a mosque here by an NGO propagating yoga as a measure to prevent non-communicable diseases (NCD) has won praise from Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on Saturday.
According to Mujtaba Hasan Askari of Helping Hand Foundation, the clinic, providing primary health care and information on nutrition and yoga was catering to about 200 people daily.
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Heartening to know that Yoga classes are being permitted at Masjid-e-Ishaq, Tadbun area in Hyderabad to improve the health profile of the local people. Yoga is an age old science with great utility to the present world.
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">Heartening to know that Yoga classes are being permitted at Masjid-e-Ishaq, Tadbun area in Hyderabad to improve the health profile of the local people. Yoga is an age old science with great utility to the present world.
— Vice President of India (@VPSecretariat) February 15, 2020Heartening to know that Yoga classes are being permitted at Masjid-e-Ishaq, Tadbun area in Hyderabad to improve the health profile of the local people. Yoga is an age old science with great utility to the present world.
— Vice President of India (@VPSecretariat) February 15, 2020
Free treatment was provided to all, regardless of caste and creed, and the intention is to send a positive message about communal harmony, about peace, he said. Appreciating Askari for making efforts to build a healthy society, Naidu tweeted that everybody should make yoga a part of their life.
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Practising yoga will be immensely helpful in preventing many lifestyle diseases. I appreciate the Mosque committee in Old city for permitting the Yoga classes in Masjid. I compliment Shri Mujtaba Hasan Askari for running the health center.
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Practising yoga will be immensely helpful in preventing many lifestyle diseases. I appreciate the Mosque committee in Old city for permitting the Yoga classes in Masjid. I compliment Shri Mujtaba Hasan Askari for running the health center.
— Vice President of India (@VPSecretariat) February 15, 2020 ">Practising yoga will be immensely helpful in preventing many lifestyle diseases. I appreciate the Mosque committee in Old city for permitting the Yoga classes in Masjid. I compliment Shri Mujtaba Hasan Askari for running the health center.
— Vice President of India (@VPSecretariat) February 15, 2020
Yoga was a part of the Indian tradition and not related to any religion. "It is a great tool which provides relief by unifying body and the mind," he tweeted in Telugu. Located on the ground floor of a mosque, the clinic which started the NCD wing three months ago uses a World Health Organisation (WHO) form with various parameters to determine those at the risk of being affected by diseases such as diabetes and hypertension," Askari said.
Many people found it difficult to undertake walking as a form of physical exercise in view of congestion of roads, he said. Hence, Yoga was taught with the help of charts and those who receive the information go home and practice, he said.
We are giving YouTube links (on exercises), Askari said adding diet and nutrition counselling was a major focus area.
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(PTI)
