In 2000, the World Health Organisation declared that paediatrics would come to include youngsters up to the age of 19.
A few years later, the Indian Association of Paediatrics (IAP) decided to celebrate National Teenage Day on August 1, and put its Adolescent Chapter in charge of the task. Saturday will be the sixth National Teenage Day, in an effort to sensitise people to give proper treatment of teenagers.
Speaking about the occasion, Dr Rajiv Mohta, the president of the Adolescent chapter of the Nagpur unit of the Indian Academy of Paediatrics, said, "The adolescents of today are responsible members of the family tomorrow. Therefore, we should strive to address their problems today, so that they may be able to solve the family's problems more effectively in the future."
Mohta, who is also an executive body member of the National Adolescent Chapter and moreover the only paediatrician ever to win the prestigious Dr Anandibai Joshi Award, added, "Teenagers and adolescents are the pivots of the family, and we must concentrate on helping them sustain the physical, mental, social and moral changes that they are going through. This is the best that can be done to pave their way towards a normal adulthood."
A few years later, the Indian Association of Paediatrics (IAP) decided to celebrate National Teenage Day on August 1, and put its Adolescent Chapter in charge of the task. Saturday will be the sixth National Teenage Day, in an effort to sensitise people to give proper treatment of teenagers.
Speaking about the occasion, Dr Rajiv Mohta, the president of the Adolescent chapter of the Nagpur unit of the Indian Academy of Paediatrics, said, "The adolescents of today are responsible members of the family tomorrow. Therefore, we should strive to address their problems today, so that they may be able to solve the family's problems more effectively in the future."
Mohta, who is also an executive body member of the National Adolescent Chapter and moreover the only paediatrician ever to win the prestigious Dr Anandibai Joshi Award, added, "Teenagers and adolescents are the pivots of the family, and we must concentrate on helping them sustain the physical, mental, social and moral changes that they are going through. This is the best that can be done to pave their way towards a normal adulthood."