Generalized and Specialized Medical Camps and Health Mela
Comprehensive health care camps and specialized medical camps were organized in urban slums and villages in rural Gurgaon to help the poor access free health care services including medical check-up, diagnosis, referral services and preventive health education program. Sukarya has organized diabetes detection camp, heart care camps, mental health camps, eye camp, multi-specialty treatment camp and health check up camps for pregnant and lactating women. Under the preventive health education program workshops, presentations and informal discussions were organized to promote healthy practices among project community.
During the year 2008-09, fifteen general health camps and ten follow-up camps were held in the villages of Ghata, Tighra, Samaspur, Wazirabad, Kanhai, Silokhra, Sainikahera, Bandhwari, Gwalpahari and Waliawas. The major health problems that emerged during the camps were typhoid, diarrhoea, skin diseases, anaemia, under nutrition, respiratory tract infections, tuberculosis and reproductive tract infections.
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