Successful Evening OPD Concludes At Guwahati Press Club

Guwahati: The last Saturday evening clinic at Guwahati Press Club was successfully conducted by Assam’s popular healthcare institute Dispur Hospitalson 29 April 2017.

Dr Udayan Saikia from the hospital offered free consultations to over 30 media persons along with their dependents. The participants also got their weight, blood pressure & sugar checked by nurse Sonmani Dutta and health worker Biswajit Das in the weekly health camp.

The next camp under the ‘Evening with a Doctor’ series on 6 May will be graced by Apollo Chennai Hospital’s senior gynecologist Dr A Vinutha. Organized exclusively for lady members of the press club along with the spouses (also daughters) of media persons, the camp will begin at 4 pm on the press club campus and continue till 6 pm. Prior to it, the experienced gynecologist will also deliver a talk on various gynecological issues at the press club auditorium starting at 3 pm.

Earlier on 22 April, four senior Homeopathic physicians namely Dr SK Das, Dr Susanta Malakar, Dr Gayatri Dutta Baruah and Dr Ramanand Gupta attended the OPD clinic for the benefit of the press club members. It was predeceased by two MMC Panbazar hospital physicians (Dr Madhab Rajbongshi and Dr Hitendra Nath Chakravarty) on 8 April and two Ayursundra Superspecialty physicians (Dr Prerit Sarma and Dr Ayona Barthakur) on 1 April health camp.

It may be mentioned that eastern India’s one of the pioneer press clubs launched the unique healthcare initiative last year. Dispur Hospitals’ managing director Dr Jayanta Bardoloi initially supported the endeavour with raising a doctor’s chamber at the press club premises in August 2016. His hospital also conducted the first episode of evening OPD clinics.

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 attended the camps.