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Starting from the World Diabetes Day on 14th November 2014, the Health Care Section of Tibet Charity organized free health camp for ten days at various places in and around McLeod Ganj, Dharamsala.

The main objective of the free health camp was to create awareness among the public regarding the causes, prevention and control of diabetes and blood pressure. Creating awareness among the public has demanded important attention as rapid increase has been noticed in the number of people having high blood pressure and sugar level.20141121_100305_0

Besides creating awareness among the public, free BP and sugar level checkups were done. The persons having high risk of blood pressure and diabetes were advised to go to Delek hospital for further checkup.

We thank Margrethe Larsen and Tibet Charity, Denmark for kindly supporting us with strips and needles used for sugar level tests. Without her support, it would not have been possible for us to go for large scale checkups.

  1. Blood Pressure statistics (831 people checked):
S. No. Date Place No. of patients checked

Normal

(< 120/80mmof Hg)

Pre -Hypertension

(120/80-139/89mm of Hg)

Hypertension (>140/90mm of Hg)
1. 14/11/2014 McLeod Ganj 195 112 26 57
2. 18/11/2014 OPH TCV 61 40 5 16
3. 20/11/2014 Upper TCV 146 93 16 37
4. 21/11/2014 CTA Gangkyi 323 246 30 47
5. 21/11/2014 Mentseekhang 106 68 18 20
T O T A L 831 559 95 177

2. Blood Sugar Statistics (831 people checked):

S. No. Date Place Patients Checked

Normal

 (RBS: 80-120 mg/dl)

 (Above 120 mg/dl)

1. 14/11/2014 McLeod Ganj 195 164 31
2. 18/11/2014 OPH TCV 61 47 14
3 20/11/2014 Upper TCV 146 135 11
4 21/11/.2014 CTA Gangkyi 323 288 35
5 21/11/2014 Mentseekhang 106 76 30
TOTAL 831 710 121