Northeast: Unique Media Health Camp Continues

Guwahati: As healthcare initiatives become expensive every single day across the globe, Guwahati Press Club in northeast India has adopted a unique program for the sack of healthiness of its members along with their dependants. Launched last year ‘Evening with a Doctor’ program is now a regular feature at its premises on every Saturday.

The last evening OPD clinic at the press club was conducted by two practicing doctors from Mahendra Mohan Choudhury hospital, a Panbazar based government run institution (now an annex of Gauhati Medical College hospital) on 8 April 2017.

Dr Madhab Rajbongshi and Dr Hitendra Nath Chakravarty from the MMC hospital were available for free consultations to nearly 30 participants including women and children.

Staff nurses Sewali Deka Pathak and Gitumoni Thakuria assisted the participants to check their blood pressures in the camp.

Earlier, the city based Ayursundra Superspecialty Hospital conducted the camp on 1 April, where Dr Prerit Sarma and Dr Ayona Barthakur were present to advice the participants after examining their weight, blood sugar & pressures.

It may be mentioned that the scheme was launched in August 2016 with initial supports from Dr Jayanta Bardoloi, managing director of Dispur Hospitals for raising a doctor’s chamber at the press club premises. The city based hospital also conducted the first evening OPD clinic and kicked off the noble initiative.

Till date, a number of practicing doctors from Medanta-the Medicity Hospital, Apollo Chennai Hospital, GNRC Group of Hospitals, Down Town Hospitals, Narayana Super-Specialty Hospitals, Swagat Super-Surgical Institute, Sankaradeva Nethralaya Guwahati, Wintrobe Hospital, Barthakur Clinic, Nemcare Hospital, Rahman Hospitals, Sun Valley Hospital, Sight First eye-clinic, Government Ayurvedic College, Institute of Dental Science & Research Center etc have graced the camps.