The city based senior physicians namely Dr Bhupen Deka and Dr Paresh Sarma on 18 November conducted the media OPD clinic at Guwahati Press Club, where over 25 participants received free consultations from the physicians.
The participants also got their weight, blood pressure & sugar checked by nurses Monika Kalita & Nenghoilhing Haokip in the camp, which was organized under the series of ‘Evening with a Doctor’ programs for the benefit of press club members along with their dependants.
Launched in August 2016 with initial supports from Dr Jayanta Bardoloi, managing director of Dispur Hospital in raising a doctor's chamber at the press club premises, the series of camps have helped diagnosing many journalists with alarming high blood pressure & sugar.
They were also accordingly advised to follow necessary healthy guidelines.
Till date, practicing physicians from Apollo Chennai Hospital, SIMS Hospital Chennai, Manipal Bangalore Hospital, Fortis Hospital Bangalore, Medanta the Medicity Hospital, GNRC Hospitals, Down Town Hospital, Dispur Hospital, Hayat Hospital, Ayursundra Hospital, Nemcare Hospital, Narayana Hospital, Sun Valley Hospital, Sight First Eye-Clinic, Barthakur Clinic, Wintrobe Hospital etc have attended the camps.
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