Raipur

2-day free 'Mega Health Camp' at Rajnandgaon from today

Staff Reporter

Two days Mega Health Camp was to be held at Rajnadagaon on September 7 and 8, Chief Minister Dr Raman Singh himself took initiative for the same.

The noted heart surgeon Dr Naresh Trehan from Medanta Hospital Gurgaon, would be leading to the team of experts of various ailments during Mega Health Camp at newly built nursing training centre in the premises of District Hospital Rajnadgaon.

Team of doctors would examine and treat patients for free in this Mega Health Camp. District administration and health department together busy making arrangements for the Camp under the guidance of District Collector Ashok Agrawal.

Chief Medical and Health Officer Dr Mithilesh Chawdhari and Snadeep Godiyal from Medanta Hospital Gurgaon have informed the media about the Health Camp on Friday. Dr Chawdhari also informed about the team of doctors who are going to take part in the Mega Health Camp. Technician and paramedical staff would also assist the team of experts in the Camp. Facilities of ECho, ECG, BP, Blood Sugar, Foot scan (Diabetes) would remain available in the Camp for free.

To ensure more and more patients could avail the free Mega Health Camp facilities, A team of expert doctors are doing registration of the patients in district hospital from September 4. Collector instructed all the SDMs, officials of the local self governments, Tehsildars and CEOs of the Janpads to ensure giving information about said Free Mega Health Camp in their respective areas and send patients for the check up and treatment.

Dr Chawdhari and Godiyal have also informed that for heart and other patients three days camp for registering them was also organized for consecutive days on September 4, 5 and 6.

Hearts patients from Mohala, Manpur, Chhuri and Dongargarh were registered in screening and registration camp held on September 6.  Patients from Dongargaon, Chaowki, Rajnandgaon, Dhunka, Khairagarh and Chhuikhadan were registered on September 5 and on September 6 patients from Rajnadgaon were being registered to be examined and treated in Mega Health Camp.

Dr Mithilesh said that breathing trouble, fatigues is a simple sign of cardiovascular disease. Patients suffering from high blood pressure and diabetes are also considered relatively more prone to cardiovascular diseases. If children complain about these symptoms they should be properly examined since they may be prone to heart disease, he added.

He said poor patients who were found suffering from the heart disease would   be further treated with the help of Sanjeevani Kosh.