Thousands treated at K’handi health camp

The Pioneer, Feb 26, 2011
Bhawanipatna: The Kalahandi district administration hosted a three-day-long Mega Health Camp from February 20 to 22 at the district headquarters here attended by a huge crowd, majority of them form the BPL families of the region. Total 29 doctors from various departments treated the patients at the camp while five doctors from the Vedanta Hospital made their valuable contributions. Vedanta Hospital CMO Sabita Swain, paediatrician Ratan Kumar Das, medicine/sickle cell anaemia specialist Gyanarajan Padhy, physiotherapist Supriti Patra, cardiologist Binay Binaykar and nephrologist Sukanto Kishore Das rendered their services at the three-day camp. Four doctors from the Vedanta Hospital attended the camp daily and treated nearly 1,000 patients and majority of them consulted the medicine department, informed CMO Swain. Apart from medicine, patients were treated and cured in the departments of physiotherapy, paediatrics and nephrology, she added.