Andhra Pradesh - Khammam   

Massive health care programme for poor

KHAMMAM: The Nama Muttaiah Memorial Trust and NTR Tust would jointly take up a massive health care programme for the poor in Khammam district, according to Nama Nageswara Rao, Chairman of the Madhucon group here.

Addressing a news conference, he said some five to six revenue mandals were listed with people badly in need of medical facilities and they would be covered under the programme on priority.

A mobile clinic with all facilities and two doctors on board would be pressed into service very soon.

The clinic would cover all the interior villages providing free medicines.

Every patient who attended the camp in the interior villages would be covered once in a fortnight until he or she was recovered fully.

He said that the trust floated in memory of his father had borne 50 per cent cost of 1500 irrigation and drinking water wells dug in the district so far.

Recalling the day how his parents toiled to fetch drinking water in his native village of Balapala in Khammam division, he said the farmers in for scarcity condition would be extended possible help.

Mr. Nageswar Rao said that some 200 youths would be given entrepreneurship and they would be guided in excelling self employment programmes under the Yuva Nirman programme.

The responsibility would be shouldered both by the NTR trust and the Nama Mutaiah Memorial trust.

He said air-hostess training programme would be conducted for women as art of the effort in Khammam.

He distributed cheques worth Rs 1 lakh extending help to some families of farmers who had committed suicide because of financial problems in the district.

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