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Annual health camp for the poor
Smile Foundation is organising an Annual Mega Health Camp from September 7-17, 2008 in Bhilwara district of Rajasthan in western India. The multi-disciplinary camp will provide free treatment to poor patients through a make-shift hospital with the help of more than 100 specialist doctors.
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07 September 2008
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| Where | Bhilwara, Rajasthan, India |
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Smile Foundation has been organising annual multi disciplinary health camp free of cost since 2002 for the benefit of the rural poor. The cumulative number of beneficiaries accorded is 23,000.
This year, the Sixth Free Annual Mega Health Camp is being organised in Bhilwara district of Rajasthan from September 7–17, 2008.
Multi-Disciplinary Mega Health Camp
The Multi-disciplinary Health Camp focuses on providing integrated health care services (preventive, curative and referral) including investigative and surgical interventions in a make-shift hospital environs in rural settings.
Venue: Ramniwas Dham Trust, Shahpura, Bhilwara, Rajasthan
Beneficiaries: Underprivileged rural population, focusing on children and women, from 50 villages
OPD target: 5,500 villagers
Surgical operations: 500
Facilities: Make-shift 500 bed hospital, diagnosis, medicines, food and accommodation, surgical operations, mobile surgical unit
Fee: Everything is free of cost
Medical team: 120 specialist doctors and paramedical staff from Surgery, Ophthalmology, Gynaecology, Orthopaedics, Medicine, E.N.T., Anaesthesia, Radiology, Paediatrics, and Pathology.
Diseases to be treated: Hernia, Eye Disorders, Allergies, Arthritis, Communicable Diseases, ENT, Gynae Diseases, Oral Care, Kidney and Gall Bladder stones, Ureteric stones, Moles, Fibroid (tumours), Urinary Infection. Appendicitis, Thyroid and Sexually Transmitted Diseases, etc.
Programme Schedule:
September 7 – 8, 2008: OPD [Target 5000 people]
September 8 – 9, 2008: Major Operations, Surgeries [Target 500 people]
September 11 – 12, 2008: Small Operations, medical care, other services
Recommended Press Visit: September 9 – 10, 2008
The local partners for Seventh Free Annual Mega Health Camp’ will be Jain Samaj Women’s Wing, Rajasthan and Government of Rajasthan.
About Smile Foundation:
Smile Foundation is a national level development organisation reaching out to over 100,000 underprivileged children and youth through more than 104 education, healthcare, livelihood and advocacy programmes across 21 states of India.
For further details, please contact:
Contact: Sumita Rathore, Neha Agrawal
Emails: press@smilefoundationindia.org, comm@smilefoundationindia.org
Phone Nos.: 9971393304, 9868498014, 91-11-41354565
Website: www.smilefoundationindia.org
