The health department team reached Borguda in Sukma district by walking one and a half km
Health checkup of children, elderly and women was done by going door to door
127 people of inaccessible village Borguda got free treatment
Raipur 6 January 2025: Chief Minister Vishnudev Sai had started the Niyyad Nellnar Yojana for the all-round development of remote rural areas of Bastar. Under the scheme, on the instructions of Health Minister Shyam Bihari Jaiswal, the team of the Health Department is going door to door in inaccessible areas and conducting health checkup. Under the Niyyad Nellnar Yojana, special health camps are being organized in all inaccessible and tribal dominated areas of Sukma district. The team of the Health Department is knocking door to door in remote inaccessible areas with all types of health facilities. To increase awareness about health, health facilities and programs are being delivered to the last end of the villages through special health camps. For this work, Collector of Sukma district Mr. Devesh Kumar Dhruv and Chief Medical and Health Officer Dr. Kapil Kashyap are specially monitoring the works.
Village Borguda, marked under Niyad Nellnar Yojana, is a forest village under Gram Panchayat Pongabhejji of Sukma development block. The health department team reached here on foot along the footpath. This village falls in Pariya Camp area, located at a distance of about 45 km from the district headquarters. A health camp was organized under the shade of a tree by the health department team.
Under the 100-day identification and treatment campaign under Nishchay Niramaya Chhattisgarh, a health camp was organized in the inaccessible area of Borguda on Saturday. In the camp, the health department team conducted health check-up of about 45 people of the community and screened for tuberculosis, malaria, leprosy, diabetes and blood pressure. During the camp, sputum samples of 10 suspected tuberculosis patients were taken and sent to the District Tuberculosis Eradication Center for testing. Along with this, about 127 people who came to the camp were given health checkup and free medicines were distributed.
A large number of villagers came to the camp for health checkup. On this occasion, the villagers were also sworn in to save their families and neighbors from TB. The health department advised the villagers to be cautious of snakes and scorpions, sleep in a bed with a mosquito net at night, drink filtered water and keep their surroundings clean.
