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COVID SPECIAL
Sunday 23rd May 2021
U.K 2.00 pm till 7.00 pm BST (British Summer Time)
U.S.A 6.00 am till 11.00 am PDT
East Africa 4.00 pm till 9.00 pm EAT
India 6.30 pm till 11.30 pm
(All times are in BST(British Summer Time))
Dr. Milen Shah
(U.K)
2.00 pm
Host Welcome
Dr. Milen Shah
Dr. Milen Shah – is a NHS doctor for many years and is a GP Partner in a large practice in London serving a variety of patients. He follows up a range of long term patients from children, teens, adults, with a particular interest in elderly and end-of-life care. From a spiritual background, the work is deemed as “seva” (service) with an emphasis on communication skills with compassion and understanding.
Milen is a volunteer and student at Chinmaya Mission, learning about the Vedanta philosophy, and in facilitating classes for toddlers & parents on the theme of Hindu culture.
Hanuman Dass
(U.K)
2.05 pm
Hanuman Dass
Helping India Fight COVID with Go Dharmic
Go Dharmic was started in 2011 by Hemal Randerwala. He was given the spiritual name Hanuman Dass by former Harvard Professor Ram Dass who introduced him to his beloved Guru and Saint, Neem Karoli Baba.
Go Dharmic is a volunteer-driven charitable organisation founded in London, UK (Charity Status No. 1171619) with a worldwide community of over 3,000 committed members and a social media reach of over 500,000. Go Dharmic Welfare Foundation India (Charity Status no. 282535) has volunteers throughout the country who communicate digitally and through the GD app to deliver over 15 social action objectives across multiple UN sustainable development goals including but not limited to: Disaster Relief, Food Poverty Alleviation, Development of Education facilities, Development of Toilets in India and Sanitation facilities
2.30 pm
HOST
Dr. Milen Shah
Dr Mayank Shah
(U.K)
2.30 pm
Dr Mayank Shah
BAPS Covid Pandemic Support
Dr Mayank Shah is a senior partner and GP trainer in an NHS practice. He has previously served as clinical director at Waltham Forest CCG. He is also the clinical director at Lotus Healthcare, an independent sector healthcare provider of health screening, general practice and medico-legal services.
Dr Shah is a Trustee at The BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha UK & Europe (Neasden Temple) where he has special responsibility for all it’s Outreach activities. These include the charity partnerships, health awareness programmes and interfaith relationship.
During the Covid pandemic, BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha globally has been actively involved in supporting the local communities in a variety of ways. This support has now been extended to aid the current India covid pandemic.
Dr Shah and his Outreach department members, Khushboo Miyani and Jay Patel, will provide an overview of the Covid pandemic support programmes
3.00 pm
HOST
Dr. Milen Shah
Darshna Patel
(U.K)
3.00 pm
Darshna Patel
Vaccination Update
Darshna is the Vaccine Programme Director for the Covid-19 vaccination centre at Shree Swaminarayan Mandir in Kingsbury in London, UK. The site is run by Harness Care Ltd, a group of 20 GP practices working together to serve the population of Brent. She is a GP Pharmacist currently clinically redeployed from her substantive post as Deputy Head of Workforce Planning at Health Education England. Darshna speaks passionately about the power of collaboration and communities coming together, highlighting the true multidisciplinary nature of the centre. The team currently comprises of volunteers from the temple, healthcare students, allied health professionals, healthcare assistants, nursing associates, pharmacists, nurses, doctors and even deployed military personnel! To volunteer to join the team, or to register for a vaccination if eligible, visit www.myharness.org.
3.15 pm
HOST
Dr. Milen Shah
Bharti Kantaria
(U.K)
3.15 pm
Bharti Kantaria
Divya Seva Foundation Outreach
In 2005 Bhartiben formed Divya Seva Foundation (DSF) after being moved by the plight of a young disabled girl called Lakshmi who couldn’t get to school due to a lack of a wheelchair or adaptive learning tools. DSF is a UK registered Charity for which she is the founder Trustee and President and whose motto is ‘Towards a brighter future’.
DSF has developed projects in the areas of; education, vocational training, medical treatment, community building, spiritual values and empowerment of women and girls. In addition, Bhartiben mobilised a team to donate over 10,000 meals to the NHS and key workers during the UK national lockdowns and is now tackling the Covid Crisis in India. She has managed to source oxygen cylinders, oxygen concentrators, sponsored and fully equipped an emergency covid crisis hospital and procured emergency patient vehicles. She is a mother of three, believes we all have the power to make a difference, is quick to respond to any humanitarian disasters and her latest project is sourcing housing for those affected by the Gujarat cyclone.
3.45 pm
HOST
Dr. Milen Shah
Sanjiv Patel
(U.K)
3.50 pm
Sanjiv Patel
Mind. Body. Soul. – Beating Long COVID
An Award-Winning Entrepreneur and Leader with years of experience across industries and NGOs, Sanjiv is a thought leader on servant leadership. His awards include
‘CORE Award by Warwick Business School for his contribution to the Business School and the Global Alumni Community’ in 2019.
‘Most Influential British Indian Leader’ Award 2017
#BritishHinduHero as a COVID-19 survivor who went the extra mile despite personal challenges to help anyone in need and to make their recovery from COVID-19 easier by sharing his learning and experience.
He cycled 246kms in 48 hours and raised almost £20,000, towards supplying much needed Oxygen and supplies for the India COVID-19 Relief effort.
Known as The Mindful Leader, Sanjiv will share how he battled the mental, physical and spiritual battles of Long COVID over the past year. Insights into how he ‘cut out the noise’ and went back to basics to take control. How listening to your gut and reframing the ‘self-talk’, can work wonders. We are capable of so much more than we believe, and it is in the toughest of times that we find our true selves.
www.facebook.com/SanjivSpeaksOfficial
Dr. Sheila Dobee
(U.S.A)
4.15 pm
Host
Dr. Sheila Dobee
Dr Rajeev Gupta
(U.K)
4.15 pm
Dr. Rajeev Gupta
How to Win over stress
Dr Rajeev Gupta is Medically Qualified Consultant in NHS for 18 years and is Chairman of Central Specialist Advisory Committee of The Royal College in London. He has been Chairman of Regional Council of BMA for 5 years and is currently Chairman of the Regional Consultant Committee for Yorkshire.
He is an active researcher and has been Chief Investigator and UK coordinator for International Research Trails. He has received many awards including clinical excellence awards, Glory of India Award, Outstanding personal Service Award, Heart award, Patient Choice Award and Gold Award for health Workplace.
He has active interest in yoga and has been tasked by Swami Ramdev ji to lead medical advisory committee and actively help integrating yoga into medical practice in UK. He has since then set up teaching Yoga to doctors and has run many yoga teaching sessions for doctors each around 30 doctors. He has done a lot of study of the health benefits of yoga and will be happy to share it with us today.
4.45 pm
HOST
Dr. Sheila Dobee
Dr Krista Kostroman
(Canada)
4.45 pm
Dr Krista Kostroman
Connections between the immune system, microbiome, and anxiety
Combining professional experience in naturopathy, computer science, and meditation, Dr. Krista Kostroman, ND approaches health and wellbeing in novel ways. She believes health is sourced not only in care of the body but also care of one’s mind and spirit; laughter is as important to health as are diet and exercise. Passionate for scientifically founded, wholistic care, Krista focuses on functional genetics and how such information, when combined with diet and lifestyle, can create bountiful health. Her professional activities are collaborative in nature and split between clinical practice and health care provider consultations. She graduated from the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine where her internship included a year on their Adjunctive Cancer Care shift. She has 15 years of additional training in meditation and yoga.
5.30 pm
HOST
Dr. Sheila Dobee
Dr. Chirag Pandya
(U.S.A)
5.30 pm
Dr. Chirag Pandya MD FCCP
Covid and Lung Health
Dr.Pandya is a board certified Pulmonologist and intensivist/critical care medicine specialist. Dr. Pandya is currently serving as medical director, critical care and respiratory therapy at Stanford Healthcare- ValleyCare in Pleasanton, California which is in San Francisco Bay Area.
Dr.Pandya is also certified and trained in Sleep Medicine and Interventional Pulmonology focused on advanced procedures including Endobronchial Valve placement.
6.15 pm
HOST
Dr. Sheila Dobee
Dr. Bharat Pankhania
(U.K)
6.15 pm
Dr Bharat Pankhania
Vaccines, Variants and the way forward.
Dr Bharat Pankhania has widespread experience of advising on national communicable disease control action plans at national and international level.
Dr Pankhania, as a senior Consultant in Communicable Disease Control, coordinated complex and very sensitive look back exercises, where there had been laboratory errors or hospital exposure of patients to infections, these are major national exercises and very sensitive operations.
Dr Pankhania’s experience includes: Pandemic Influenza outbreak planning and major plan testing exercises: Development of a web-based surveillance system for recording the first 500 plus cases of a pandemic, to quickly understand the new virus and thus better implement control measures. He was the local Lead for Pandemic Influenza planning at Public Health England and became the reference point for outbreak planning, testing systems and control strategies.
He was immersed in and contributed to the Ebola and SARS surveillance and control methodologies, specialist screening methods at ports of entry.
Dr Bharat Pankhania (@doctorshaib) / Twitter
https://www.youtube.com/c/DoctorBharatPankhania
THANK YOU
Technical Director – Nishit Kotak
Creative Director – Sarita Menon
Production Director – Dr Honey Kalaria
Host Director – Simran Ahuja
Promotions Strategist – Varsha Mistry
Media Team – Kesh Morjaria, Anita Nomula, Varsha Mistry
Host Team – Dr. Milen Shah and Dr. Sheila Dobee
Back Up Team – Deepa Vithlani, Renu Gidoomal, Dr. Lalit Sodha, Mallesh Kota, Meena Trivedy, Shivali Ruparelia, Saivani Samboo
Facilitator Team – Dr. Sheila Dobee
Channel Partners – MentalHealth_Connect, Hindu Matters in Britain, Enrich TV, Diwali In London, Bhakti Sagartv, Simran Ahuja Official, Hindu Forum of Europe, Sanskruti, Sunrise Radio UK and many more.
Special Thanks : Strategic Web Success and www.inndus.co.uk
Hosts – Conclusion