By Sarah Rolles

Local doctor honoured with Jubilee Medal

Jul 3, 2012 | 7:06 AM

Dr. Lalita Malhotra a local doctor who is well known in the Prince Albert area for her work in women’s health has received another honour.

Last month she was bestowed with a Diamond Jubilee Medal.

The medal that was created to mark the 2012 celebrations of the 60th anniversary of her Majesty Queen Elizabeth ll’s accession to the throne serves to honour significant contributions and achievements by Canadians.

Malhotra received the medal for the many contributions she has made in the community of Prince Albert, Canada and overseas.

Since she arrived in Prince Albert in 1975 Malhotra has continued to help newcomers adapt to the Canadian health-care system, founded the Women’s Wellness Clinic in Prince Albert, and began a cervical cancer screening program for women in India

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“Woman’s wellness is the main aim and I totally believe if the mother in the house is well the whole family is well because she is like the bark of the tree and if she is steady then she will feed the branches of the tree very well,” said Malhotra.

Over the years Malhotra has been awarded and honoured many times for her contributions and hard work. In 2001 she received the Saskatchewan Order of Merit and the YWCA Woman of Distinction Award. She became a member of the Order Of Canada in 2006 and was named Citizen of the year in 2007 for Prince Albert. She was also recently named one of the top 35 women of Canada by Canadian Living Magazine

“It was a total surprise,” said Malhotra who found out she was getting the award while she was already in Ottawa and received it the next day at Rideau Hall. “I think that I was kind of overwhelmed.”
Malhotra continues to focus on woman’s health issues and right now is part of a planning committee on how to help prevent substance abuse during pregnancy, which has so far resulted in a pre-natal clinic being developed at Family Futures.

“The biggest issue is drug abuse which includes alcohol, cocaine, marijuana, everything, because we are finding more and more patients who come into the hospital who have been abusing drugs and we have babies who are going through withdrawal,” she said.

A second issue she hopes to target is diabetes during pregnancy.

“Gestation diabetes is also going up very, very high in our city and it is related with obesity and the type of eating habits so that is the next project to tackle,” she said.

“Gestation diabetes is bringing us… complications in pregnancy and complications in delivery so it’s increasing, doubling up I would say every year or two,” she added.

Malhotra is one of 60, 000 deserving Canadians that will be recognized with the Jubilee Medal.
She said her goals from now until she retires will be to continue to focus on women’s health.

“I will keep working as usual and the main idea is to improve the health of woman, that is what I aim for.”

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