Allcargo Logistics, with SAAD Foundation, organized four general health check-up camps across slum communities in Mumbai.
One of the important lessons of the pandemic is that health can never be taken for granted. We need to look after ourselves even if it is just a minor health issue, but there are those who cannot afford to access regular healthcare.
To help such people, Allcargo Logistics with its partner organization, SAAD Foundation, organized four general health check-up camps across slum communities in Mumbai, to enable them to have access to basic healthcare.
The primary purpose of the camp was to create awareness about preventive measures, benefits of adopting a healthy lifestyle, and importance of nutrition; and provide health check-ups; distribute medicines to treat common diseases; and give referrals for further treatment or surgery as per the requirement. Healthcare professionals from D.Y. Patil Hospital attended to the patients at the camp, which provided free-of-cost health care services to the community.
During the health camp the most common health ailments that patients complained of were dizziness, rashes, itching, fever, back pain, joint pain, headache, abdominal pain, body ache, weakness, unusual sweating, discharge from ears, and hypertension.
Different medicines were given to patients during the health camps such as Cefixime, Paracetamol, Albendazole, Cetrizine, Dicyclomine Hydrochloride tablets, Calcium with vitamin D3 tablets, and Povidone Iodine ointment and ORS among others, to help manage their symptoms.
Such camps help people avail medical services at no cost to themselves, thereby enabling them to get treated for ailments for which they may not visit a medical practitioner, and diagnose ailments at an early stage as well. Heath being a core pillar of Avashya Foundation, these camps, help us achieve our goal of providing equitable access to healthcare for our less fortunate brethren.
