Physiotherapy students of Department of Physiotherapy, College of Health Sciences, Gulf Medical University conducted a community engagement activity on 9th May 2023 at Habitat School, Al-Jurf, Ajman.
Around 600 students at the Habitat School were screened for Text Neck Syndrome and provided with text neck syndrome awareness education and appropriate preventive physiotherapy program.
BPT students of different years namely Ms. Fiza (2019pt25), Ms. Hadil (2020PT08), Ms. Rawan (2020PT34), Mr. Gamal (2020PT41), Ms. Mariam Deif (2020PT28), Ms. Ingy (2019PT17), under the guidance of Dr. Sukumar Shanmugam conducted this activity.
The principal, teachers, staff and students at the Habitat School were satisfied with the community services provided to them and they also requested us to deliver similar awareness program every year and to the other school students.
Praveen Kumar Dean, CoHS commented “Community engagement is a very crucial role to be played by all health care professionals which is imparted in GMU students ”.