Free Health Check Up Camp
Double Helical, a leading national health magazine, in association with SPARSH, recently organised Free Health Check Up Camp at Hanuman temple premise in Sector 1, Vaishali (Ghaziabad) with renowned doctors of reputed hospitals. SPARSH is a non-profitable, selfless, voluntary organization dedicated to the education and health of people especially children
The free health check up camp was inaugurated by chief guest, Dr Arun Kumar Agarwal, Professor of Excellence, Former Dean, Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi and Presently, Medical Advisor, Innovation and Clinical Research, Apollo Hospital, New Delhi, along with Prof. Ramesh K. Goyal, Vice Chancellor, Delhi Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research University, New Delhi and Dr Suneela Garg, Chair, Programme Advisory Committee, National Institute of Health & Family Welfare and Member Lancet Commission.
According to Dr Sachin Bhargav, Senior Child Specialist and Convener, SPARSH, a free health check up camp was set up with a sacred aim to bring awareness and provide completely free medical checkup including all medical services which are available nowadays in hospitals like ECG, OPD, MRI, CT Scan, Diagnosis, Blood Test, Gastroenterology, Gynecology, Maternity, Nephrology, Oncology, Radiotherapy, Radiology, Physiotherapy, Urology amongst the deprived population and poor people of the country who have no access to basic healthcare services or knowledge about the diseases they are suffering from.
The free health checks up camp provided free medical advice, medicine to the people and refer for specialized treatment or surgery whenever it is required. These camps make sure people are getting healthcare at the right time, and seeing the doctor early enough before a small health problem turns serious.
Dr Arun Kumar Agarwal, explained about objective of health camp. He said, “We are driven by strong ethics of medicine who believe that it is the moral responsibility and obligation to treat each patient regardless of their income, race or social status. The main objective of a medical camp is to provide initial care to people in life-threatening conditions which reflect the unique strengths and goals of medical ethics.”
Dr Suneela Garg,\said, “I am happy to know that Double Helical, a leading national health magazine, in association with SPARSH has undertaken a major initiative of organizing free health check camps dedicated to ensuring the health of expecting mothers. Following the pledge of scores of doctors from renowned hospitals to dedicate to provide healthcare services and completely free medical health checkup to poor people urban, semi-urban and rural areas of India, free medical camps are conducted in every year on the occasion of Durga Puja. Whenever a preventive service is offered to a defined group of people there will be those who are the professionals who will naturally seek reasons for this.”.