A free medical camp for workers would be held in the Urla industrial area near Raipur on Saturday, officials said.
The camp to be organised by the labour department following a direction by the labour minister Amar Agrawal, will start at 10 am in the premises of the Urla industry association hospital.
Employee’s state Insurance Corporation card holder workers and the members of their families can avail the free health examination at the camp, jointly organised by the Chhattisgarh labour welfare division and and Employee’s state Insurance Corporation. The workers would be treated for heart, neurology, gynecology, pediatric, ear, nose, and throat, orthopedic and other ailments by experts doctors. They will also be advised how to stay fit in industrial area. The government has been organising such health camps from time to time in industrial area under various welfare programmes. In the latest camp, the labour department has set a target to provide treatment and health counselling to about 1000 workers. labour commission er Rajesh Srivastav said at least 15000 people have already been treated for eyes defect by organising such camps in Rajnandgaon, Bilaspur, Korba, and Raipur. The labour welfare department has also distributed spectacles to about 3000 of them, he said.