Health camp for lady journalists concludes
Most of the lady journalists and better-halves of the scribes in the city showed satisfactory outcome when they went on a general health check-up exercise at Guwahati Press Club today. Only few among the participating women in the camp were advised for further consultation and treatments by the physicians.
The day long exclusive camp for lady participants was organized by the city based Dispur Hospital in accordance with the International Women’s Day, to be celebrated tomorrow across the globe. The camp, which attracted over 80 participants, was conducted by female doctors & lady assistants only.
In addition to medicine and gynecology consultations, the participants had undergone normal sugar, blood pressure and thyroid test where many of them also took the first dose of Hepatitis-B vaccine in the camp. The second & final dose of Hepatitis-B vaccine will be administered for them at the press club premises on 7 April 2016.
Dr Dippy Agarwal (gynecology) and Dr Trishnali Thakuria (medicine) attended the camp and offered consultations to the participants, who were helped by Anjali Bhuyan, Kabita Deka and Ghunusa Devi. The camp was supervised by Dispur Hospital’s public relation officer Ujjal Saikia in association with Anijul Hussain.
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