Smoking Awareness Week
The Perils of Smoking – Lecture by Dr S Sockalingam
In line with their curriculum, the students of Year 9 were joined by guest speaker Dr Sargunan Sockalingam MBBS (India) (Int.Med) (UM). Dr Sargunan is Head of the Rheumatology Unit at University Malaya Medical Centre (UMMC) and Associate Professor at Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
We were truly appreciative of him being able to support our Smoking Awareness Week by giving of his precious time and explaining the perils of smoking.
Whilst Dr Sargunan spared the audience from the more gruesome photographs he could have shared with us from the diseases of smoking, his presentation thoroughly explained why people smoke, the implications of smoking and benefits of stopping.
The students found Dr Sargunan very informative and funny (although the speech was given with an undertone of complete seriousness) and there were lots of questions at the end which highlighted how interesting the students found the lecture.