MOBILE HEALTH UNIT IN KORAPUT DIST. ODISHA

In addition to the above services to the tribals in Padwa, the organization is providing health services by running a mobile medical unit with the support of Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Govt. of India to cover 68 villages of six gram panchayats to provide the following services:

• Medical checkup of patients.
  
  
• Dispensing medicines
  
  
• Referring patients requiring specialized treatment, to the nearest government hospital
  
  
• Referring patients to diagnostic labs which would charge nominal fees for their services from the patients sponsored by the organization.
  
  
• Counseling patients
  
  
• Organize health camps to educate the public about common and widely prevalent diseases help patients to feel well and also focus on other issues of interest to the common man.
  
  
• The Mobile Health Van team would not only deals with curative but prevention aspects as well by organizing health checkup camps such as malaria prevention, water borne disease and mass awareness sessions on other illnesses like diarrhea, arthritis and dengue fever and health diet for pregnancy and lactating mothers.