Medical camps for destitute on February 28 in Kozhikode

KOZHIKODE: After the successful intervention in social service through Jeevanam and various other projects, Kudumbashree is now helping the destitute in the city financially and healthwise. As part of this, the poverty eradication mission will conduct mega medical camps on February 28. Kudumbashree volunteers have identified nearly 600 destitute elders eligible to attend the camps where expert doctors and nurses of different specialities from the city’s prominent hospitals would examine them.

“Our initiative is to identify basic healthcare requirements of destitute elderly living in slums and various other areas within the corporation limit. We will provide them with medical and health care assistance like walkers, walking sticks, wheelchairs, bed pans, adult diapers, spectacle frames, clothes, food ration and medicines,” project officer Ramsy Ismail said.

“We also have roped in four hospitals in the city including Malabar Hospital and Baby Memorial Hospital to provide them with free medical care even after the camp. Once they are registered with the Kudumbashree CDS here, all their future medical care will be ensured by us. In this way by providing all these facilities including financial support, we will be able to see a new Kozhikode where not even a single elderly person lives without proper health care assistance.”