Qatar: Indian Community Benevolent Forum (ICBF) in association with the Indian Doctors Club-Qatar conducted the 27th free medical camp mainly for low income industrial and domestic workers at Medical commission, Abuhamour Qatar on Friday, September 23.
ICBF, a charitable organization under the aegis of the embassy of India, in association with the Ministry of Public Health, Qatar, organised the camp from 7.30am to 2pm on Friday. The camp was supported by Telugu Kala Samiti (TKS) and Telangana PrajaSamithi (TPS), which are socio-cultural organisations affiliated to ICC.
The camps provided free medical consultation in both general and specialized fields of treatment, paramedical attention, free medicines and references for special or chronic diseases to local or government clinics. A team of nine dedicated doctors consisting of general physicians and specialists from various medical centres including Parco, KIMs, Aster and Al-Abeer attended the workers. The paramedical team was from Medical Commission and some other medical centres also participated.
The camps also included sessions for educating and improving awareness among the workers on health, hygiene and lifestyle improvement techniques such as yoga, exercises, and healthy food habits.
Ministry of Public Health and Parco Health Care clinic has provided the administrative, consultation and other medical support for the camps. Welcare pharmacies resourced free medicines in addition to the regular supplies from Hamad Medical Corporation.
The medical camp was inaugurated by Indian ambassador Sanjiv Arora, along with Abdul Rahman al-Mushiri, Medical Coordinator, Medical Commission of Qatar. Other dignitaries present at the inaugural function were R K Singh, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of India and ICBF Co-ordinating Officer; Arvind Patil, President of ICBF; Harish Reddy, President, TKS and Umesh, General Secretary, TPS. The Ambassador personally enquired about the health and living conditions of the workers and assured his support to them at all times.
As many as 1200 multinational and multilingual workers of different trades working with different companies were benefitted by the medical camps conducted by ICBF.
Arvind Patil, President, ICBF, told Community, “ICBF has always tried to bring smiles to those who are unable to go to medical centres for treatment due to their busy work schedule. All 1,200 participants were happy with yoga sessions. They asked for more such medical camps on Fridays. ICBF has considered their request and intends to conduct such medical camps once in every three months in the future”.
