Transparent Hands recently held a free medical camp and preventive healthcare session to make quality healthcare accessible to impoverished patients. The free medical camp was held at Indus Public School, Khuda ki Basti, Kotri, Sindh on  March 3, 2023

Free Consultations, Medicines, and Diagnostic Tests

Our medical team, which included doctors, nurses, and pharmacists, provided a wide range of healthcare services to 535 deserving patients. Services offered at the camp were: 

• Free Consultations
• First Aid
• Medicines 
• Hepatitis B & C Screenings 
• Blood Sugar Test
• Blood Pressure Checkup
• Uric Acid Test
• Cholesterol Test
• Typhoid Test

Most Common Diseases 

The patients were diagnosed with a wide range of health problems, such as fever, cough, flu, seasonal allergies, asthma, ear infection, chest pain, diabetes, skin infection, diarrhea, joint pain, abdominal pain, weak eyesight, and hepatitis B & C. 

Preventive Healthcare Session

At a preventive healthcare session, the doctor spoke to the attendees about the importance of using clean and safe water, practicing good personal hygiene, and disposing of human waste safely.

Impact 

The free medical camp at Kotri, Sindh, made a big difference in the lives of 535 deserving patients and their families by catering to their medical needs. This camp also provided free health consultation, disease detection and diagnosis, distribution of medicines, and referrals of patients to our panel hospitals for further treatment. The doctor at the camp also spread awareness about various health conditions to promote a healthy lifestyle. 

Thousands of donors are helping Transparent Hands reach its goal of giving more people access to high-quality healthcare in rural and suburban areas of Pakistan. 

Medical Camp Team

The medical camp team consisted of 16 members, including two supervisors, four doctors (two females and two males), two nurses, one lab technician, two pharmacists, four patient registrars, and one photographer.