ADLD Free Medical Camp at Kalyam Sharif - Camp Report

Venue: Kalyam Sharif

Date: 15th June 2014

Day: Sunday

Kalyam:

Kalyam Sharif is a rural village situated at a distance of about 60 kilometers from Alliance for Diabetes and Liver Diseases Islamabad (ADLDI) Headoffice. It is in the south east of Islamabad near Rawat. The total Population of Kalyam & its surrounding villages is about 15000.

Need for Medical Camp:

During a visit to the Kalyam Village by ADLDI management it was found that the majority of the population of the locality belongs to the middle & lower middle class & they cannot afford medical check ups in the city hospitals. Furthermore, there is no Basic Health Care Unit in the village & its suburbs. Keeping in mind these facts ADLDI organized a free medical camp at the Village on 15th June 2014.

Objectives of Medical Camp

• To serve the lower and middle class people of the Kalyam Village and its surroundings who do not have access to nearby hospital with free medical treatment.
• To be well versed of the entire medical issues and troubles faced by the underprivileged communities specially women and children,
• To provide free medical relief to all those families who due to their poor economic condition & strict traditional norms are not able to approach specialists for appropriate medical treatment & ultimately suffered hazardous infections
• To have the complete info about the other serious illness common among villagers and refer them to the referral centers for the medical tests.

Preparations:

Preparations for the medical camp started seven days before the event. The program unit chose the site for the camp, which was situated at the center of the village. Alliance management contacted different medicine companies and donors for the arrangement of medicine, medical equipment, Sugar/HCV/HBV test kits for expected turnover of about 500 patients. To deal with large turnover of patients, 8 doctors, 5 Nurses, 10 paramedical staff and 2 other team members were arranged and assigned them tasks relevant to their field.

Set Up of medical Camp

An open house of 120 x 120 feet was chosen for medical camp. The whole area was covered with tents. The covered area was further divided into different sections like male waiting area, female waiting area, patient registration and evaluation area, dispensary, clinics etc.

Services Offered

1. Consultancy
2. Medical Check ups
3. Diabetes Tests
4. Liver Tests
5. HCV/HBV Tests
6. Diabetic Patients Counseling
7. Provision of free medicine

 

Types of Services offered by Doctors

• Consultative

The consultation was given to the patients with no major disease.

• Curative

Curative services were provided to the patients with minor & routine diseases. The medicine was provided at the dispensary according to the doctors prescription.

• Referral

The patients who needed proper follow up & surgery for their diseases were referred to the hospitals like PIMS, FGSH & RGH for the complete & thorough treatment.

• Health Education

A team of doctors & medical students provided brief health education to each individual patient about diabetes, malaria, cholera & deadly diseases like HIV/AIDS, and hepatitis.

For females the following health education was provided

• Treatment of gynecological disorders.
• Ante natal check ups.
• Post natal check ups.
• Reproductive Health

For Child Health Care

• Treatment of child diseases
• Nutrition guidance
• Breast feeding guidance
• Need of immunization
• Growth monitoring
  

Analysis of Patients’ Data

• During a short span of five hours a total number of 227 patients were examined.
• Male turnover was 103 patients. It is 45.4% of the total.
• Turnover of female patients was 124 patients, 54.6% of the total patients.