is a charitable
educational Trust dedicated to the cause of advancing
Gastroenterology especially in the state of Orissa. The
Foundation was started in 1995.One of its major goal is
to educate the lay public about different aspects of
gastrointestinal diseases they ought to
know.
Hepatitis B is 100 times
more infectious than AIDS.
In India, there are over
40 million Hepatitis B carriers and over4million people
are suffering from Hepatitis B virus (HBV) related
serious liver diseases. In our country, every year about
one lakh people die due to HBV related liver
diseases
In India, the number of
deaths due to Hepatitis B virus related liver diseases
in a single day exceeds the total number of deaths due
to AIDS in one year. Hepatitis B can be easily prevented
by vaccination. In order to contain the menace of HBV
infection.
