St George’s Hospital’s medical superintendent Dr J Bhavani gets up from his chair and spreads both his arms, “Have I not lost weight?” he turns around.
He claims he has lost at least 16 kg in the last two months after daily exercise. Down the corridor from his office, in the operation theatre, plastic surgeon Chandrakant Gharwade has adopted a balanced diet. He has reduced from 99 kg to 85 kg in two months. But it is not just the two of them.
The sudden burst of willingness to stay fit is not a coincidence. An internal pilot study to measure hospital staffers’ health parameters has sent every employee into a state of alarm. Even nurses and class IV staff are following health tips given to them daily by doctors.
The first ever study carried out on hospital’s 300 doctors, nurses and clerks measured two parameters, the Body Mass Index (BMI) and abdominal circumference. A significant 44.6 per cent were found in obese category of which 12.6 per cent were severely obese. Doctors admit they knew their BMI was on higher side but were alarmed only after the study results came.
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