Featured in ‘Independent on Saturday’ on Saturday 7 October
Body Care October.
October is set aside to raise awareness about two crucial aspects of physical wellness: Breast Cancer and Eyesight:
Breast Cancer Awareness Month is an annual international health campaign observed in October to raise awareness about breast cancer, promote early detection, support those affected by the disease, and raise funds for research, prevention, and treatment.
World Sight Day on Thursday 12 October 2023 is the most important advocacy and communications day in the eye health calendar to encourage people to be aware of eye care. This year’s theme is once more “Love your Eyes” understanding that 75% of the world’s vision impairment is avoidable – the focus globally is to encourage people to take an eye test.
Obstetrics and Gynaecology specialist, Dr Marise Subrayan, is a great advocate of women’s health. She has her practice at St Augustine’s hospital in Durban where she encourages female empowerment and education and assisting women in making individualised, informed decisions about their physical, mental and sexual health.
Fatima Hoosen is National Director of Eye Care at St John, one of the oldest Non-Profit Organisations in the world, which has an Eye Care Clinic in 129 KE Masinga Road / Old Fort Road Durban providing professional eye testing and the dispensing of budget spectacles. St John will be doing a major Eye Care intervention on Thursday, as well as supporting five major civil society partners working as SA Eyecare Coalition Outreach, to host an outreach programme to provide vision screening for patients of the EG Usher Memorial Hospital. October being World Sight Month 2023.
Pictured is Dr Marise Subrayan (in grey) and Fatima Hoosen (in green).
Pic by Shelley Kjonstad / INL / Independent on Saturday
Body Care October
