On the afternoon of May 10, the volunteer team of "Traditional Chinese Medicine Culture into Campus" of Nanjing Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, aiming at health problems such as obesity in children and adolescents, went to the Purple Mountain Branch of Beijing East Road Primary School and the Experimental Primary School of Nanjing Agricultural University to carry out the theme activity of "2024 Campus Traditional Chinese Medicine Culture Theme Day and World Obesity Prevention and Control Day", guiding children and adolescents to use the concepts and methods of traditional Chinese medicine to scientifically and healthily manage their weight and develop good living habits.
This series of activities is guided by the Jiangsu Provincial Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, sponsored by the Jiangsu Provincial Traditional Chinese Medicine Development Research Center and the Jiangsu Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and jointly organized by Nanjing Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Nanjing Association of Integrative Traditional and Western Medicine, Experimental Primary School of Nanjing Agricultural University, and Purple Mountain Branch of Beijing East Road Primary School.
At half past one p.m. on May 10, the Medical Department and the Liaison Office of Nanjing Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine organized volunteers such as Zhu Yumin, Tang Yaoyao, Zhang Xiaoran and other volunteers to go to the Purple Mountain Branch of Beijing East Road Primary School to carry out the "World Obesity Prevention and Control Day" health culture popularization activity for the students of the fifth class of the first grade of the school, and carried out the promotion and guidance of appropriate technologies of traditional Chinese medicine from the aspects of weight management, scientific exercise, and traditional Chinese medicine diet therapy.
At 3:30 p.m. on May 10, the Medical Department of Nanjing Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine and the Liaison Office organized volunteers such as Zhang Niya, Han Huanhuan, Chen Xiaoshuang, Li Qian, Ni Shuaifeng and other volunteers to go to the Experimental Primary School of Nanjing Agricultural University to carry out the "World Obesity Prevention and Control Day" health culture popularization activity for the students of the school's TCM interest club, and carried out the promotion and guidance of appropriate TCM technology from the aspects of weight management, TCM fitness, and TCM aromatherapy. Orthopaedic volunteers from the hospital also conducted free professional scoliosis screenings for some students.
The theme activity of Chinese medicine culture into the campus not only allowed the students to learn practical health knowledge such as the prevention and treatment of obesity and scoliosis with the combination of traditional Chinese and Western medicine, but also further helped the children to establish self-confidence in Chinese medicine culture, stimulated their interest in Chinese medicine health culture, expanded their extracurricular knowledge, and won unanimous praise and praise from teachers and students of the two schools.