An outreach heart disease screening and awareness health camp was jointly conducted by Department of Community and Family Medicine (CFM) in collaboration with Cardiology and Cardiothoracic Surgery Departments of AIIMS, Bhopal on Sunday at Centre for Rural Health (CRHA), PHC Chiklod. Under the dynamic leadership of Prof. (Dr.) Ajai Singh, ED, Senior Residents of CFM (Dr Preeti Prakash) and Cardiology (Dr Jayesh Dubey) under the guidance and support of Dr. Arun Kokane CFM HOD, Dr Yogesh Niwariya Additional Professor (CTVS), Dr Bhushan Shah, Assistant Professor (Cardiology) and Dr Vikram Watti Assistant Professor (CTVS) organized this camp.
The camp was attended by 36 patients.
All the patients were screened for high blood pressure and random blood glucose level. ECG was done for symptomatic patients to detect cardiac illness at present. A health talk was also given to raise awareness about heart diseases- prevalence, major risk factors, how to identify someone at risk for impending myocardial infarction.
