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‘NGOs should conduct medical camps for poor’

KADAPA: Non-Governmental organisations should conduct free medical camps for the rural poor, especially in areas which lacked medical facilities, as medicare has become an expensive affair, District Collector M.T. Krishna Babu said on Sunday.

He inaugurated a free mega medical check-up and blood donation camp organised by P. T. Veera Reddy Memorial Health Foundation on its fifth anniversary at ZP boys high school at Chennur. Incidence of epidemics would be high in rainy season and doctors should render medicare in such camps, he said. The Government was prepared to sanction individual sanitary latrines in Chennur, where almost 90 per cent of people belonged to low-income groups, he said.

Former Rajya Sabha member S. Ramamuni Reddy lauded conduct of the medical check-up and blood donation camp on the fifth anniversary of the foundation. Telugu Desam Party district general secretary S. A. Khaleel Basha lauded the foundation for conducting free medical camps.

Telugu Desam MLC M. Venkatasiva Reddy said that medicines were given in the camp, free food was arranged and students were given prizes and appreciation certificates. Chennur sarpanch Nagalakshmamma submitted a memorandum to the Collector on problems prevalent in the mandal headquarters.

An NRI Upendra Kumar Reddy, Chennur ZPTC member Chinnaiah, Kadapa DSP D. Narasimha Reddy and local leaders Chandrasekhar Reddy, Jayabharat Reddy, Ramamanohara Reddy, Saradamma, B. Bhaskar Reddy, Palakonda and Vani nursing college students participated.

The Collector gave away cash prizes of Rs. 2,000 each and appreciation certificates to Murali Raju and Kavitha who secured highest marks in SSC this year.

Doctors Adarsh Reddy, T. Giridhar and K. Peddanna examined about 1,400 persons in the camp.

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