To spread awareness about importance of health and environment, the entire world will celebrate ‘World Health Day’ on April 7. This year's theme, ‘Our Planet, Our Health’ defines climatic crisis as main cause of health crisis. All the health threats that humanity is facing now are due to adverse climatic change. On the other hand, despite conserving environment, people have become habitual to deal with different climatic changes these days. This results in increasing natural disaster and threat to humanity as well.

Further, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has estimated 13 million deaths across the world due to avoidable environmental causes. This year. the WHO will urge people across the globe to take steps to protect the planet and their health with prioritising the well being of society.

On a second note, health care measures that we used to avoid before pandemic has become essential for humans right now. People are consuming green vegetables and fruits giving preference to healthy fresh and home-cooked food, hand-wash for more than twenty seconds, maintaining diet of sugar, salt, protein, fiber and fat intake.

Dr Ratensh Kurariya, Chief Medical and Health Officer, while talking to ‘The Hitavada’ stated, “Post COVID period has made people alert for personal hygiene. The precautions that we are taking due to COVID, were already adopted in foreign countries years ago because of other viral infections. No doubt this pandemic has improved our lifestyle in a different way. Many people have started maintaining personal hygiene and taking care of their health on priority basis.”

Dr Kurariya further stressed on increase in health crisis due adverse change in climatic conditions.

“We need to conserve climate first if we want to stay