Health Camp at Shree Janata Sec School, Rupa RM – 03, Polyang

NELUMBO, NEPAL conducted a three-day long health camp along with an awareness program at Pokhara Metropolitan City -22, Pumdibhumdi in coordination with the ward office of Pokhara Metropolitan City-22. The main objective of this camp was to provide general health care services to the local community people of Pokhara Metropolitan City-22 and surrounding wards from qualified health professionals without any cost. This camp was organized with the main theme of “Identification, prevention, and treatment of chronic diseases”. Along with the treatment and medication services, it was also a means for screening the most prevalent health problems of the local people. Not only the curative part but special emphasis was also given to the preventive aspects of health through awareness programs. Throughout the camp, the awareness program covered a range of health-related topics using the multimedia approach.
The main highlights of the camp can be listed as:
- General Health checkup (General, Ortho, Gynae, and ENT)
- Dental checkup with the availability of screening, x-ray, scaling, extraction, restoration, etc. services
- Laboratory (blood sugar and urine test)
- USG (Ultrasonography)
- ECG (Electrocardiogram)
- Free medicine distribution
- Awareness Program
Services | No. of Patients |
General | 580 |
Orthopedics | 423 |
Dental | 297 |
ENT | 267 |
Gynecology | 196 |
Laboratory(Urine & blood sugar) | 467 |
ECG | 128 |
USG | 143 |
Medicines Prescribed | 561 |
Total | 3062 |
The camp ended on Ashoj 28, 2080 (Oct. 15, 2023) with a total registration of 744 among which 34% were male whereas 66% were female. A total of 3062 different services were provided throughout the camp, details of which are shown in Figure 1. Doctors had referred many cases that needed further treatment to different hospitals in Pokhara. The referred cases are mostly related to ENT; there were also some cases relating to the eye, ortho, and gyno. People who cannot afford further treatment due to their economic and social status will be supported by the Medical Charity Fund of the organization after doing the Socioeconomic assessment.
Overall, the camp was a success as it got positive responses and feedback from the community people, government officials as well and the local representative of the aforementioned ward who attended it.
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