Patna, Aug. 7: Bihar Foundation, United Kingdom, is all set to organise a health camp under healthy heart project, on the Bihar Military Police campus in Patna on Tuesday.
With this, the foundation, a charity by doctors of Bihar origin settled in the UK, will launch its mega medicare services in the state. Dr Rajay Narayan, secretary, Bihar Foundation told The Telegraph that during the camp, hundreds of people specially Bihar Military Police jawans, will be diagnosed for higher cholesterol levels in the blood.
“The idea is to educate people about heart diseases, hyper tension, diabetes and hypercholestremia through camps all across the city. The inaugural camp will be launched in the capital by deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi and health minister Ashwini Kumar Choubey,” he said.
The foundation that came into existence in 2007 was an effort by professionals in the UK, who had their cultural origins in India and in Bihar in particular. These professionals, mostly medical, had for some years been supporting individual projects and causes for education, social and medical development in the state.
The foundation, which also gets aid from the British government, has been doing several charity works in the state. It includes a hospital in Supaul district, which the foundation has been running in collaboration with the government of Bihar and looks after primary care needs of 70,000 local population.
Talking about the planned health camp, Narayan said that special device to check cholesterol level in the blood, which has been brought from the UK, will be used during the health camp. “The device was donated to us by the Birmingham University. We are targeting to check blood cholesterol level of at least 500 people. It will also help screen the probable heart patients and advising them. A team of six doctors will be there in the camp who will give dietary and medical advice,” Narayan added.
According to estimates, about 20 per cent of the total population of the state suffers from hypercholestriamia. The foundation is in touch with the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and Indian Medical Association (IMA) to get a district-wise data on heart patients in the state.
“We will organise innumerable health camps all across the state. But we have a data on number of people suffering from heart complications. It will be easier to concentrate on some particular areas where such camps are more required. We are taking the help of ICMR and IMA to get district-wise figures of people with history of heart-related ailments,” Narayan added.
