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Camp for childless couples in Ooty evokes good response

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Women’s Day: Doctors interacting with childless couples at a medical camp organised by the Rotary Club of Nilgiris West in Udhgamandalam on Sunday. —

Udhagamandalam: A camp organised by the Rotary Club of Nilgiris West here on Sunday to commemorate the International Women’s Day in a fitting manner helped raise the hopes of a large number of childless couples in this hill station.

Stated to be the first of its kind in the Nilgiris district, it was conducted with the help of the Coimbatore-based Vamsam Test Tube Baby Centre and the Sri Siva Hospital. With the organisers having put in a great deal of effort to create awareness about the camp the response exceeded expectations.

Pointing out that the camp was the outcome of the club’s desire to extend a helping hand to a section of society which was coping with a physical and emotional problem, its president, Ramesh Kumar told The Hindu that the task was challenging but at the same time immensely satisfying. “At the contemplation stage we thought that only about 60 or 70 couples would turn up but as the day progressed the flow steadily increased”, he said and added that by the time the curtain came down around 125 couples had been screened by the team of doctors.

Among the beneficiaries were couples from Erode, Coimbatore, Kodaikanal and Puducherry.

Tests and treatments which would have normally cost between Rs. 5,000 and Rs. 10,000 were carried out free of charge.

To a question, the secretary of the Club, Gee Gee George, said that scans, semen tests and colour dopplers formed part of the screening.

Stating that none of beneficiaries who were in the age range 21-47 displayed any kind of inhibition, she said that they had come to terms with their problems and looking for ways to tackle them. Counselling formed part of the camp.

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