Health Check Awareness through Free Medical Camp

Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well being and not only the absence of disease. It is also the ability to lead a socially and economically productive life.

Health is the most important wealth a human can have. Due to many factors, people acquire diseases and certain medical conditions. They can be educated about health and diseases through free medical camp and other awareness programs. They should know about proper diet, how to be fit through regular exercise, and be healthy. Everyone must be aware of regular health tests they need to undergo, depending on their age, gender and health conditions. Free medical camps should be arranged specifically in rural areas because people living in villages are ignorant about their health issues.

There are several children and adults with serious medical conditions in rural areas. Many of them require financial help to undergo critical surgery or treatment. If treated on time, they can live for many more years. In many cases, if one person is cured, it saves the entire family.

Free medical camps can play a significant role to support raising health awareness among people. We must carry out awareness programs about diabetes, heart health, cholesterol, fitness etc. The medical camps should provide a particularsetup to screen problems and sponsor free surgeries for deserving people. Diabetes screening camps should be set up to help Diabetic patients understand the kind of precautions they must take.

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Free medical camps should be sponsored to arrange treatment for children andthe elderly in critical conditions. Example: Heart operations for children and specific health awareness camps with a focus on diseases like Dengue, Chikungunya, ENT, dental problems, HIV/AIDS, H1N1 (Swine Flu) should be organized at all locations. Awareness programs on Reproductive Child Health etc should be conducted as well. Health awareness programs should include the malnourishment issue in 0-5 year age-groupof  children. NGOs here can conduct the health awareness programs in the villages so that everychild, man and woman could receive vital health messages.

Free medical camps generally focus on primary health care in the cityandrural areas which is focused on immunization, prevention of malnutrition, pregnancy, childbirth, and treatment of common illnesses. To ensure complete healthy lives of people it is important to include health awareness programs which should  pay attention to individual nutrition, the standard of living of the people and the improvement of public health as well.

Health awareness programs can contribute highly towards creating a healthier society by raising awareness on various issues of health and hygiene. For this purpose, the camps can make use of visual media with which the communities are already familiar. Another strategy is to include involvechildrenand youth in awareness programs because, children are the best messengers to carry the message to their parents, family and other community members.

The Health awareness sessionsin the campscan be organized in coordination with the community keeping their time and other constraints in mind. Through these activities, it should be ensured that such programs reach a maximum number of people. 

The poverty prone people are ignorant ofthe light of education so they have little knowledge about good health and its benefits in life. To improve and develop the socio-economic conditions of this community it is essential to building up a disease free healthy generation in the first place.

To address the healthcareneeds and resolve all the health issues to educate the underprivileged and less aware people about health rights and services through experts. By spreading health awareness throughmedical camp,it is possible to touch a million lives.