National Cancer Awareness Day: How to promote cancer-related cognizance at work?

Cancer is growing day by day in India. Until a few decades ago, the country had a very small number of cancer patients mostly who were affected by bad habits like drinking, chewing tobacco, or genetic tendencies. However, the last few decades have seen a sudden surge in the number of cancer patients. Of course today the survival rate from cancer has also increased but it is always better to prevent its onset by taking a few precautions.

And this is possible if people are aware of the early signs and symptoms of this deadly disease. On National Cancer Awareness Day today know how you can promote cancer-related cognizance at work.

Arrange fitness challenge programmes

Fitness should be a top priority for everyone. Nowadays, even MNCs and big corporate companies also promote health and fitness offer gym memberships, and arrange sports events to ensure that their employees are fit and well. Arranging a fitness camp, a doctor’s lecture on obesity, and taking care of health are basics.

To motivate the employees to take their health seriously, you should arrange fitness challenge programmes like plank challenge or a short running or marathon competition. The competitive spirit makes the employees invest their time in their health and thus in the long run it can become a habit.

Day-wise events

Cancer has spread so fast all over the globe that nowadays almost every month there is a day dedicated to a certain type of cancer. For example, January is cervical cancer awareness month, February 4 is considered World Cancer Day, and so on. To promote cancer awareness you can mark such days and send awareness messages on the company’s social media group related to signs and symptoms of cancer, diet to ensure that you stay away from it, and so on.

Arrange free coupons for screenings

Many hospitals offer free screening programmes in collaboration with companies. For example, you can offer a free coupon for doing mammograms to women which is a breast cancer screening test. It will encourage employees to go for tests and sometimes even save their lives with very early detections.