Dispur Hospital conducts media OPD clinic
As part of Guwahati Press Club’s continuing initiative for regular health check-up and instilling proper health awareness among mediapersons, its ‘Evening with a Doctor’ program this Saturday featured city-based Dispur Hospital conducting the weekly evening OPD clinic at the Press Club premises. This camp witnessed the participation of over 40 mediapersons receiving consultation from Dr Kashyap Kumar Das free of cost.
The weight, blood sugar level and blood pressure of participants were screened, along with collection of their blood samples for testing of thyroid levels, reports of which will be available at the Press Club office by Tuesday.
Nurse Jonprabha Deuri, health workers Biswajit Das and Umar Faruque and office staff Deben Sah assisted in conducting the camp.
Till date, physicians from Apollo Chennai Hospital, Chennai SIMS Hospital, Manipal Bangalore Hospital, Fortis Hospital Bangalore, Medanta the Medicity Hospital, Down Town Hospital, GNRC Hospitals, Nemcare Hospital, Hayat Hospital, Ayursundra Hospital, Sun Valley Hospital, Sight First Eye-Clinic, Barthakur Clinic, Wintrobe Hospital etc have attended the camps.
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