Free medical health checkup, medicine distribution camp and various free surgery camp: Vishwakarma Samiti Kalina (Santacruz), Mumbai
Pragatee foundation is one of the trusts for social, health and education development; find out such affected areas and organize a free medical camp, free medical distribution camp etc. Pragatee foundation’s survey team found that there are areas where diseases are there but because of poor background, people are not able to take proper treatment and medicines. Even today there are many cases that come forward of diabetes, malaria, cancer, kidney stone surgery, dengue, lepto etc.
On 20th September 2015, pragatee foundation, Mumbai and Vishwakarma Samiti,(Santacruz) Mumbai and sevenhills hospital (under the Rajiv Gandhi jeevandayee arogya yojana (rgjay)) jointly organized free medical checkup and free medicine distribution and free registration for various surgery and operation at Vikhroli tal: Mumbai sub, dist: Mumbai, between morning 10:00 a.m. to evening 3:00 p.m.
Pragatee foundation selected qualified doctors’ teams under dr. Geetangali mahadik & under chinmay Chavan (coordinator of pragatee foundation). There were 10 volunteers and 2 team leaders appointed to control and manage this camp. In this camp also appointed a Sevenhill hospital team under dr. Rajiv malgundkar. All local arrangements managed by human rights forum organization and their local social workers. This camp was successfully organized and approximately 200-250 people were checked-up. Many patients registered in the camp for angioplasty/bypass heart surgery will be brought in operated free of cost at Sevenhill hospital.
The main objective to organize this camp to improve access of below poverty line (BPL) and above poverty line (APL) families to quality medical care for identified speciality services requiring hospitalization for following surgeries and therapies or consultations in free of cost in sevenhills hospital, Mumbai.
The following surgeries/therapies/procedures are covered in the hospital.
