The Hindu : Health `melas' at Araku, Chodavaram soon

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Sunday, Jan 18, 2004

Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh - Visakhapatnam

Health `melas' at Araku, Chodavaram soon

By Our Staff Reporter

VISAKHAPATNAM, JAN. 17. Major Arogya Melas, funded by the Union Government under a special scheme, will be conducted at Araku and Chodavaram this month.

The two free medical camps were part of the programme to conduct a major health camp in every Lok Sabha constituency, the district Collector, Sunil Sharma, told a press conference here on Saturday. The Centre has allotted Rs. 8 lakhs to each camp.

The camp at Araku, in Visakhapatnam constituency, will be held from January 22 to 24 at the local Community Health Centre, and at Chodavaram in Anakapalle constituency from January 27 to 29, at the College grounds.

The follow-up action would be the major aspect of these camps, for which a separate sub-committee had been formed with the Superintendent of the King George Hospital as its chairman.

The patients could utilise the facility of doctors from 13 specialities examining them. Super specialities like cardiology, endocrinology, neurology, gastroenterology and oncology were also being provided on the last day of the camp. Clinical and diagnostic laboratory facilities would also be provided along with an exhibition. As many as 70 doctors and 160 para-medical staff would conduct each camp.

Mr. Sharma said that another medical scheme, Vandemataram, under which private doctors would offer voluntary service to pregnant women in remote areas on the ninth day of every month, would commence from next month.

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