VIN conducted free medical checkup in Kavresthali
VIN's health volunteer providing free medical checkup in Kavresthali
Volunteers Initiative Nepal’s (VIN) medical team including VIN’s doctor and VIN’s health volunteers conducted free medical checkup in Kavresthali health post throughout November. The team under public health and medical care project had provided free medical services to 80 patients including all age groups. Among them 65 were of more than 5 years age group and 15 were of less than 5 years. Out of 80, 55 were female. Medical doctor provided free medical checkup and consultation and the volunteers who are involved in health volunteering contributed in taking vitals i.e. to keep record, dressing wound, and maintaining sterilization. All the services provided by the team were free of cost. The team worked for a day, Tuesday at health post.
Table 1 Number of patients with different health problems
Patients <5 years | |
Disease | Total |
ARTI | 7 |
Diarrhea | 3 |
Fever | 3 |
other | 2 |
Patients >5 years
Disease | Total |
Pulmonary | 20 |
Cardiovascular | 6 |
Gastro-intestinal | 15 |
Skin | 10 |
Urogenital | 2 |
Musculoskeletal | 5 |
ENT | 2 |
Oral | 1 |
Eye | 3 |
Other | 1 |
As mentioned in table 1, 15 children less than 5 years are suffered from 3 types of health problems with 2 for common problems. Health problems were acute respiratory tract infection (7), diarrhea (3), and fever (3). Similarly, 65 people with more than 5 years of age are suffering from 9 problems with missing information about 1 person. Health problems were pulmonary (20), cardiovascular (6), Gastro intestinal (15), skin (10), urogenital (2), musculoskeletal (5), ENT (2), Oral (1), Eye (3) and other (1).
With the free medical checkup program provided by the volunteers involved in health volunteering, it has been found that 80 patients of Kavresthali and neighboring villages were benefited. People got free medical facilities near their home and it saved both their money and time. Or else, they would have to spend more time and money to visit the doctor far from their home. In some cases, people do not even go to seek medical until the disease goes worse.
Public health and medical care volunteers, Ana from Netherlands and Justine from France worked in clinic for November. It is the great opportunity to support national health care service delivery through VIN’s free medical care projects.
VIN has been supporting the rural communities with free medical care services since 2009. VIN’s medical team works at health post and conducts health camps in school and villages. It is aimed to improve the quality of health services by providing the health post service.
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