Sunday 29 May marked World Digestive Health Day and offers us the opportunity to recognise our Monash Health Endoscopy Unit.
The Endoscopy Unit provides a comprehensive and leading endoscopy service and is a tertiary referral unit performing a wide range of basic and advanced endoscopy procedures.
The team operates across three of our major sites at Clayton, Dandenong and Casey Hospitals and undertakes thousands of endoscopic procedures per year.
This year’s theme for World Digestive Health Day is ‘Colorectal Cancer Prevention: Getting Back on Track’, and focuses on raising awareness, understanding risk factors, and the importance of maintaining regular health checks for the prevention of colorectal cancer.
Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related death in the world, but when detected in its earliest stages it has an excellent prognosis and can often be cured with surgical intervention.
The challenges of the pandemic have seen changes to our routines, disruptions to routine health checks globally and individuals delaying care when they need it. World Digestive Health Day offers a reminder to book in your tests, understand your lifestyle risk factors and seek timely care for yourself and your loved ones.
Thanking the Monash Health Endoscopy Unit
Coinciding with World Digestive Health Day, the Monash Health Endoscopy Unit received a generous gesture of thanks from the OSH Club at Livingstone Primary School.
Each of our teams at Monash Health have played an invaluable role in protecting our community against COVID-19, and as the students have shared are an ‘essential part of our world’, and for that they say thank you.
Members of the Monash Health Endoscopy team at Clayton are pictured below with the thank you poster they received, followed by images of the team at Casey and Dandenong Hospitals.
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Learn more about Monash Health Endoscopy and their services on the Monash Health website.
For more information about World Digestive Health Day, visit their website.
Approved by Martin Keogh.