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.
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 from 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.
Details of the checkups are as under:
- Blood Pressure statistics (906 people checked):
| Date | Places | No. of patients checked |
Normal (< 120/80mm of Hg) |
Pre -Hypertension (120/80-139/89mm of Hg) |
Hypertension(> 140/90mm of Hg) |
| 25th – 26th June & 1st – 3rd July | General public at McLeod |
383 |
119 |
169 | 95 |
| 5th & 8th July | Upper TCV School |
255 |
106 | 86 |
63 |
| 9th July | CTA Staff |
290 |
207 | 44 | 39 |
| 11th July | Rogpa Care Center (Staff) | 11 | 11 | Nil | Nil |
| 15th July | Yongling School | 52 | 36 | 12 | 04 |
| TOTAL | 991 | 479 | 311 | 201 |
2. Blood Sugar Statistics (955 people checked):
| Date | Place | Number of Patients |
Normal (RBS: 80-120 mg/dl) |
Random blood sugar between 120 – >200 mg/dl |
| 25th – 26th June & 1st – 3rd July | General public at McLeod |
355 |
293 | 62 |
| 5th & 8th July | Upper TCV School |
249 |
235 |
14 |
| 9th July | CTA Staff | 289 | 263 | 26 |
| 11th July | Rogpa Care Center | 11 | 11 | Nil |
| 15th July | Yongling School | 51 | 48 | 03 |
| TOTAL | 955 | 850 | 105 |