STATE TIMES NEWS
JAMMU: In an endeavour to raise general health awareness and to highlight the importance of regular health check-ups, Rotary Club of Jammu City in partnership with 72 BPM Healthcare (Multispecialty Hospital), Channi Himmat is organising a free two-day medical camp, which was inaugurated on Saturday from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM.
Doctors from various specialties and super-specialties along with paramedic staff will attend to patients and try to raise awareness about diseases in their respective fields.
Patients will get ample opportunity to interact with doctors to enquire and gain knowledge concerning ailments.
This free medical health camp has been organised under one of the social projects namely; ‘Be Better Informed of Your Health’ Organised by Rotary Club of Jammu-City under their mission- Swasthya Jammu-Kashmir.
Teams of doctors are examining the problems related to general health, general medicine, general surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, physiotherapy, ENT, orthopedics, neurology, clinical nutrition, surgical oncology and dental etc. and providing their best of consultations and general health checkups to all age groups.
Blood pressure check, uric acid test, blood sugar test, diet charts, Neuropathy test and physiotherapy will be done free.
On its first day, around 300 people were benefitted from the camp. Homeopathic medicines were also given to the people.
In this health camp people were made aware about health and medicine. The health camp aims at promoting health seeking behaviour in the long term and thus, unlike a general curative health camp, these camps also majorly work on building awareness regarding common ailments, family planning methods, nutrition and hygiene and sanitation. These camps provide comprehensive health services free of any cost.
The among others dignitaries who got themselves examined through panel of doctors include Raman Bhalla ex-Minister, Dr. Roma Wani Secretary International Red Cross Society and members from Rotary Club of Jammu city.
