Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 22: Rotary Club of Jammu today organized a free multispecialty medical checkup camp in the premises of Gandhi Memorial Public High School in village Sehr of Akhnoor tehsil.
The camp was organized in collaboration with Sachdeva Netralaya, Gandhi Nagar, Jammu, said Sunil Kumar Sawhney, president, Rotary Club of Jammu. During the camp, more than 300 patients were examined and screened up by a team of doctors headed by Dr Sanjay Sachdeva, MS Eye (Opthalmologist) and CEO of Sachdeva Netralaya.
Other doctors of the team were Dr Surinder Sodhi and Dr Himsy Bhat, besides five members of technical staff. Free medicines were also distributed amongst the needy patients.
Speaking on this important initiative, Sunil Kumar Sawhney said, “Rotary Club of Jammu is committed towards inclusive and sustainable medical camps. We use a holistic model of eye and other treatments and undertake a number of activities in larger interest of the community, especially the under privileged ones in the area of health, education, women empowerment and childcare apart from other signature projects of Rotary International District 3070.”
“With this camp, the holding of such medical camps in remotest area will be a permanent project of the club and many more such camps will be organized in far flung areas of Jammu and Kashmir, he further said and appealed the general public to refer any cornea blind person to him for free cornea replacement.
He said more than 12 persons have already been provided free cornea replacement from Jammu and adjoining area till date. He further said the cataract operations of the needy BPL patients will be treated free of cost and that of persons above BPL shall be treated on nominal charges on no profit and no loss basis.
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