CMC, Apollo hold medical camp in HP village

CMC, Apollo hold medical camp in HP village
Our Correspondent

Ludhiana, April 5
Inspired by the call for moving towards villages under the National Rural Health Mission, launched by the Government of India, medical teams from Christian Medical College and Hospital (CMCH) and SPS Apollo Hospitals here organised a week-long free medical camp at Shug Bhatoli village in Kangra district of Himachal Pradesh.
According to functionaries of the Bibi Manmohan Kaur Memorial Welfare Society, which was the guiding and motivating force behind the camp, eye surgeons from CMCH conducted check up of patients and performed surgical correction where needed, free of cost.
A team from SPS Apollo, led by chief cardiologist Dr R.P. Singh, examined more than 300 patients and conducted 125 ECG’s for diagnosis of cardiac diseases.
Dr Singh observed that even though the incidence of heart diseases in Himachal Pradesh was less as compared to Punjab, but it was on the rise mainly because of the use of tobacco in this region.
Dr Singh advised the patients to desist from the use of tobacco and high-fat food. The villagers were also told to guard against defects of heart valves which mostly affected children. This problem starts with bad throat and slowly damages heart valves.

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