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Mobile medical units, a boon to remote villages

KARUR: Mobile medical units in Karur district have turned out to be immensely useful, treating over 1.05 lakh persons through 3,037 camps.

Speaking after inspecting a mobile medical camp at Manmangalam village near here recently, District Collector T.N. Venkatesh said that the mobile medical units were a boon to the rural people, especially to those who reside in places that did not boast of immediate medical assistance in far flung places of the district.

Stating that mobile medical units were functioning in all the eight panchayat unions in the district, Mr. Venkatesh said that Kadavur and Krishnarayapuram blocks were getting special attention with separate vehicles with a medical officer and attendants doing the rounds in the designated areas with an itinerary.

The specialty of the mobile medical units was that when the camp reaches a particular location, it would take the assistance of the concerned primary health centre or health sub centre staff in treating the patients there.

They were camping in two villages a day, he added.

Through the mobile medical units public in particular women under post and ante natal care, children’s treatment, adult women, counselling on various medical requirements, medication for tuberculosis, testing sugar levels and such other needs would be met.

The units would refer patients requiring intensive treatment to higher hospitals.

Between February and December 2007, a total of 3,037 camps were conducted in Karur district in which ante natal women numbering 7,675, as also 3,634 post natal mothers, 2,533 children under the age of five were treated at the camps.

Another special aspect of the scheme is that the daily routine and treatment modules were being monitored on line from the headquarters on a daily basis, he said.

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