ADLD Free Medical Camp Mohra Sharif Camp Report

Venue: Mohra Sharif

Date: 22nd June 2014

Day: Sunday

Mohra:

Mohra Sharif is a great spiritual center and home of the Naqshbandia, Mujaddadiya. Qasimiya, Sufi, order and is based in a small village. It is located in the Murree Hills of Punjab, outside Islamabad at a distance of 57 KM from the office of ADLDI. The total Population of Mohra & its surrounding villages is about 20000 people.

Need for the medical camp:

During a visit to the Mohra Village by program unit 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 22nd June 2014.

Objectives of medical camp:

• To serve the lower and middle class people of the Mohra 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:

A suitable site 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 doctor’s 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 255 patients were examined.
• Male turnover was 77 patients. It is 30% of the total.
• Turnover of female patients was 178 patients, 70% of the total patients.