Apollo Chennai doctor attends press club clinic By NJ Thakuria
Apollo Chennai doctor attends press club clinic
By NJ Thakuria
Guwahati: The last ‘Evening with a Doctor’ program at at Guwahati
Press Club (GPC) in northeast India was raced by Dr KN Srinivasan,
consultant cardiologist from Apollo Hospitals, Chennai. The Saturday
evening health camp for scribes attracted over 25 media persons along
with their dependents on 10 December 2016. One third of the
participants were advised for further course of treatments by the
physician. Two Apollo hospital executives namely Roopjyoti Baruah and
Kamalesh Chakrabarty supported the GPC to organize the clinic.
The next evening OPD on 17 December will be attended by a group of
physicians from the Government Ayurvedic College, Jalukbari (Assam).
Led by Dr Jayanta Sarmah the group of doctors including Dr Chiranjib
Mahanta , Dr Ajay Barman, Dr Susmita Pegu and Dr Purnima Deori will
examine the health of the participants with random blood sugar, blood
pressure and BMI tests. The camp will begin on 3.30 pm and continue
till 6 pm.
Till date, practicing physicians from Dispur Hospitals, Down Town
Hospitals, GNRC Group of Hospitals, Narayana Super-Specialty
Hospitals, Swagat Super-Surgical Institute, Wintrobe Hospital, Nemcare
Hospital, Sun Valley Hospital etc have conducted the camps on
different Saturdays in the press club.
Similarly, Medanta-The Medicity Hospital Gurgaon, Gauhati Medical
College, Apollo Hospitals Hyderabad, Barthakur Clinic, Sri Sankaradeva
Nethralaya Guwahati etc have shown interest in conducting the weekly
healthcare consultation programs accordingly in the coming days.
It may be noted that Assam’s well known Dispur Hospitals Pvt Ltd,
under the leadership of Dr Jayanta Bardoloi, supported the initiative
to raise a doctor’s chamber at the press club premises, which was
inaugurated by young citizens namely Dhiman, Kristi, Shantanava, Arya,
Shambhavi, Nistha and Arunava on the occasion of 70th Independence
Day.
“Besides personal health, the initiative is expected to help the
scribes to understand various aspects of preventive healthcare in a
better way that should encourage them to cover the sector with more
authenticity & credibility,” said a GPC statement adding that though
the initiative was formulated primarily for the benefit of its
members, anyone related to the profession is welcome to participate in
the program.
Eye specialists to attend Guwahati Press Club clinic
Guwahati: Today’s OPD (outpatient department) clinic at Guwahati Press Club (GPC) will be conducted by Sight First Eye-Clinic, where eye specialists Dr Shubhra Kinkor Goswami and Dr Bijuli Goswami would check the participants’ eyes and offer free consultations.
The weekly camp, organized under the series of ‘Evening with a Doctor’ programs for the benefit of GPC members along with their dependents, will start at 4 pm on 24 June and continue till 6 pm. The organizers encourage more participation of children belonged to the press club member-journalists in the forthcoming camp.
The last clinic on 17 June was conducted by the city based Emerge Diagnostic, where a team of health workers under the leadership of Dr Dhrubajyoti Gogoi took blood samples of the participants for screening of glucose, creatinine, cholesterol, bilirubin and haemoglobin. They also got their blood pressure checked in the camp.
The pathology reports of nearly 50 participants in the camp showed that the media persons were maintaining healthy kidneys, though few were suffering from high blood pressure & sugar. Very few were diagnosed with high cholesterol and hemoglobin level.
The unique healthcare initiative was launched by eastern India’s pioneer pressmen’s organization GPC last year, where well-known institution Dispur Hospitals extended initial support to raise a doctor’s chamber at the club premises in August 2016. The premier hospital successfully managed by Dr Jayanta Bardoloi also conducted the first episode of the media clinics.
Till date, practicing doctors from Apollo Chennai Hospital, Medanta-the Medicity Hospital, Manipal Bangalore Hospital, Down Town Hospitals, GNRC Hospitals, Dispur Hospitals, Wintrobe Hospital, Narayana Super-Specialty Hospitals, Swagat Super-Surgical Institute, Shankardev Nethralaya Guwahati, Barthakur Clinic, Rahman Hospitals, Sun Valley Hospital, Government Ayurvedic College, MMC Panbazar, Institute of Dental Science & Research Center etc have attended the camps.