In a move to provide better health facilities for the heart patients of the State, under the joint aegis of Jharkhand Government and Sri Sathya Sai Heart Hospital, a three-day state-level free heart checkup camp will be inaugurated at Rajendra Institute of Medical Science (RIMS) on Friday.
After the checkup, the patients will be sent to Sri Sathya Sai Heart Hospital for treatment. Where there will be no cost in the treatment of heart patients. Health Minister, Banna Gupta will inaugurate the program at 11.30 am in which
Additional Chief Secretary, Arun Kumar Singh will be present as a special guest. Apart from this, Shri Sathya Sai Heart Hospital's Managing Director, Manoj Bhimani, RIMS Director, Dr Kameshwar Prasad, National Health Mission's Additional Campaign Director, Vidyanand Sharma Pankaj, Director Head, Dr Krishna Kumar, Deputy Director, Dr Buka Oraon along with Health Department officials and employees will be present. .
The State level heart check up camp will continue till November 6. In the first day camp on November 4, screening of heart patients of Ranchi, East Singhbhum, Dhanbad, Bokaro, Giridih, Gumla, Seraikela-Kharsawan, Simdega and West Singhbhum districts will be done.
These patients have been screened by the team of the Health Department of the above districts. On November 5, patients from Deoghar, Palamu, Chatra, Dumka, Godda, Garhwa, Jamtara, Koderma, Latehar, Pakur and Sahebganj districts will be screened. On November 6, patients from Hazaribagh, Khunti, Lohardaga and Ramgarh districts will be examined. After the tests, the patients will be referred to Sri Sathya Sai Heart Hospital operated by Prashanti Medical Services and Research Foundation in Rajkot and Ahmedabad, where patients will be treated free of cost. A lump sum amount of ten thousand rupees will be given to the patients by the State Government to reach the destination.