Rang De Neela: Healing by infusing art with medical care to increase health literacy

Central to Shaikh’s paintings are Dr. Yajnik and his woman Pallavi Yajnik, depicted arsenic contemplative figures portion creator Kamble symbolizes an eight-year-old boy’s travel to betterment arsenic a wealth plant—flourishing with care, conscionable arsenic patients did nether Dr. Bawaskar’s skilled hand.

These paintings are a unsocial portion of Rang De Neela’s innovative task ‘Healing Journeys’. A wellness acquisition inaugural wherever Art Meets Health, Ami Shah, laminitis of Rang De Neela, aims to bring to beingness these stories done a postulation of 100 artworks successful collaboration with aesculapian experts.

“Artists seizure assorted stories connected their canvas and the effort is to usage the mean to alteration their attitudes towards health,” said Shah, an technologist who collaborated with Rang de Neela’s co-founder Dr Rajiv Kovil, diabetologist and obesity doc for this ambitious project.

It was successful April 2022 that Shah launched Rang De Neela to heighten wellness literacy and consciousness of well-being done art. Rang De Neela started with agrarian workshops wherever artists and doctors collaborated to make art, bridging 2 worlds that seldom intersect. The workshops allowed artists to sermon their wellness concerns with doctors, portion aesculapian professionals gained a newfound appreciation for the affectional and taste extent of art.

Another lawsuit was the “Walk of Confidence,” wherever patients who had undergone little limb amputations owed to diabetes walked the ramp alongside doctors. This infinitesimal not lone highlighted the contented of saree weaving but besides delivered a captious wellness message: to negociate diabetes effectively, debar complications, and unrecorded good contempt disabilities. Last year, Shah encouraged the usage of puppetry to pass wellness information.

This year, the inaugural has launched its astir ambitious task yet— Healing Journeys, a postulation of 100 inspiring stories of betterment and resilience, each brought to beingness connected canvas.  “Individuals who person personally battled bosom disease, cancer, stroke, and different illnesses are sharing their stories astir however they went from symptom to cure. Our extremity is to instrumentality these stories and crook them into exquisite artwork,” Shah said.

In Pune presently to promote doctors to enactment the project, Shah told The Indian Express that truthful acold 40 stories person been recorded and 28 canvases completed. “The purpose is to usage the arts arsenic a mean of connection to assistance radical and communities go much health-literate and alteration their attitudes towards health,” Shah said.

She besides added that they wanted to honour and commemorate the captious relation that care-givers play and promote radical dealing with comparable wellness issues by providing them with courageousness and hope, drafting from the experiences of others.

“By offering the aesculapian perspective, doctors heighten these stories and hence Healing Journeys is much than conscionable an creator endeavour,” she said. These canvases volition beryllium connected show astatine respective creation galleries, hospitals, and different forums. “Eventually we privation to show these canvases astatine an Arts and Health Museum,” she added.