Kasturba Hospital celebrates Women’s Day
- Organized Tuck shops to celebrate the spirit of entrepreneurship in womanhood.
- Exhibition had homemade, handmade articles, paintings, fashion jewelries and varieties of food items
- Blood donation camp held
Manipal, March 10, 2022: It was a unique way of celebrating International Women’s Day at Kasturba Hospital Manipal. Tuck shops were put up by women employees to celebrate the spirit of entrepreneurship.
More than 150 women employees from Kasturba Hospital, Manipal, Dr TMA Pai Hospital, Udupi and Dr TMA Pai Rotary Hospital, Karkala participated in the event with 37 stalls.
Aparna Muthana – Fabric collage Artist, Dr. Shashikikala K Bhat- HOD, OBG, Dr. T M A Pai Hospital, Udupi. Dr. Anagha K Ballal- Faculty at dept of clinical psychology & Prasanna Padmaraj- an entrepreneur jointly inaugurated the program and stalls by lighting the lamp.
“Women’s day is celebrated to commemorate the social, political and economic achievements of women. We can achieve anything today and as the theme for this year says, we should break the gender bias,” Aparna Muthana said.
Dr Shashikala Bhat noted the big shift in mindset of the people.
“Nowadays, if a girl child is born everyone in the family enjoys it which was not the case about 25 years ago. This is also the reason, why Udupi district has highest ratio than the national gender ratio,” she said.
The Exhibition cum sale had homemade, handmade articles, paintings, fashion jewelries and varieties of food items.
Mehendi competition was held for women. In the blood donation camp many female employees volunteered and donated blood for the Kasturba hospital blood bank.
