Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government will conduct a health camp in Nabarangpur district under the Mukhya Mantri Bayu Swasthya Seva for four days from Tuesday.
The initiative is aimed to supplement facilities available in the district headquarters hospitals (DHH) and provide high quality tertiary care by mobilising the experts from the existing medical colleges.
The service is scheduled to resume in Nabarangpur after a gap of more than one-and-a-half years. Health camps under the initiative will be organised in Nuapada and Malkangiri districts later, official sources said.
A total of 938 patients from across Nabarangpur district will be examined by the experts at the health camp.
On the first day of the camp, five senior resident doctors will examine the patients and do the necessary work for the different surgeries. They will also conduct difficult investigatory procedures like Echo-cardiograph and Upper GI endoscopy.
The five doctors are Dr. Biswajit Sahoo SR Urology SCB, Dr. Sumeet Kumar Sahu SR Cardiology SCB, Dr. Lipika Panigrahi SR Nephrology SCB, Dr. Rashmi Ranjan Patra SR Gastroenterology SCB, and Dr. Rakesh Kumar Mohanty SR Neurology SCB.
On the second day, six experts will conduct different surgeries, consultation in super-specialties, and prescribe appropriate medicines which will be supplied free of cost.
The doctors are Dr Sabyasachi Panda Associate Prof Urology SCB, Dr Jasobanta Behera Cardiology SCB, Dr Aruna Acharya Associate Prof Nephrology SCB, Dr. Samir Kumar Hota Asst Professor Gastroenterology SCB, Dr. Nihar Ranjan Biswal Asst Prof of Neurology SCB, and Dr. Debarchana Jena Asst Prof Endocrinology SCB.
All the logistics like conveyance, accommodation, food, camp site arrangement, tent, water, tea and snacks have been arranged by the district administration.
This initiative will make modern medical science reach the unreached with an aim to make super specialized health care like in Urology, Nephrology, Laparoscopic surgeries, consultation in Cardiology, Neurology, Endocrinology, Gastroenterology, and difficult investigations like echocardiograph, endoscopy available for all.
