Mega Women Health Camp and Drishti Suraksha Abhiyan were organized on Saturday at Community Health Center, Tonto under the joint aegis of Women Doctors Wing IMA Jharkhand and Forest Department, Chaibasa Forest Division. The Health Department and District Administration, West Singhbhum have made a special contribution in organizing this camp.

The camp was inaugurated by the chief guest, Deputy Commissioner Kuldeep Chaudhary. Civil Surgeon Chaibasa Dr. Sushanto Manjhi and DFO Podahat Forest Division, DDC, SDM Chakradharpur were present in this ceremony.

In the remote Naxal-affected areas of Kolhan, Eye Camp and Mega Health Mega Mahila Swasthya Abhiyan Camps are being organized focusing on PVTG (Particular Vulnerable Tribal Group). It was organized in Gua on 1 July, in Goilkera on 15 July and now it was organised in Tonto on 21 December, it will be organized in Pakur on 4 January and in Sahibganj on 5 January.

DC, West Singhbhum, Kuldeep Chaudhary said on the occasion that in one year, along with Women Doctor Wing Indian Medical Association, we have organized three camps in all the three sub-divisions of West Singhbhum and the local people here have benefited from it.

Civil surgeon Dr Sushanto Majhi said that there are a lot of patients of cervical inflammation in the village and small children also have cataract and many other types of blindness, it is very important to make them aware.

DDC Sandeep Meena said that the PVTG group of this area and the local people of the last period have benefited a lot from three camps in a year. By adding the Drishti Suraksha Abhiyan to it, especially small children suffering from eye diseases have benefited a lot.

 Dr. Bharti Kashyap, President Women Doctor Wing Jharkhand said, “I have been running Drishti Suraksha Abhiyan in Jharkhand for 33 years since 1991, immediately after medical graduation and since 2014, I am also running Mega Mahila Swasthya Suraksha Abhiyan in the remote areas of Jharkhand, especially the local people of remote areas of Kolhan, Santhal Pargana, Palamu who have been neglected in the field of health facilities, it is our priority to reach such local people, particularly vulnerable tribal groups, women and children who are losing their eyesight, small children who have missed school studies due to cataract and corneal diseases. In this series, today we have set up a camp in Tonto after Gua and Goilkera.”

The objective of this campaign is to treat 100 per cent of the women who come to the camp with genital swelling with medicines because genital swelling later turns into cervical cancer and to cure women suffering from cervical erosion and cervical pre-cancer in the camp area itself with the help of digital video colposcope and send them home safely after freeing them from the disease.

Under the Drishti Suraksha Abhiyan, eye diseases like cataract, glaucoma, cornea and retina diseases will be treated free of cost by Ayushman Bharat at the Kashyap Memorial Eye Hospital, Ranchi, which has the highest quality recognition of NABH.

“We are also building a wide network of trained human resources. Many gynecologists are also being trained in digital video colposcope guided eye treatment at the camp so that this system continues to run smoothly for the local people in government hospitals even after the camp,” she said.

“Our aim is to spread health awareness among the primitive tribes and backward local people so that they can identify their disease on time and reach the right place for the right treatment on time,” she added.

Out of the total 2043 patients benefited from the mega health campaign in the camp, 313 patients suffering from eye diseases were treated, while 11 patients suffering from cervical erosion and two patients suffering from cervical pre-cancer were given a new life by cryo treatment. Congenital cataract was found in 8 young children, cataract was also found in 150 elderly people.