Tirupati: Celebrating International Women’s Day, Sri Venkateswara Institute of Medical Sciences (SVIMS) conducted a comprehensive screening camp, with the aid of Pink Bus, for women, at Kammapalli Village on Friday. The rally began from SVIMS administration building. SVIMS nursing students, Sri Padmavathi Medical College for Women (SPMCW) first batch of MBBS interns, faculty and kind staff raised the slogan ‘Healthy Women – Strong Communities’ all the way to SVIMS main entrance, highlighting the importance of health in women. Creating happy communities with health is our goal, said Prof Dr T.S. Ravikumar, director-cum- Vice-Chancellor, SVIMS.
Multi-disciplinary team of all doctors, students, nurses, medico workers and SVIMS – SPMCW first batch of 130 interns, reached the village to conduct the cancer and other NCDs screening. A total of 40 teams, headed by community medicine experts, went out in the village to conduct household surveys.
CCRS unit at SVIMS participated in the camp by setting up a temporary clinic to provide SIDDHA treatment at the camp. An important initiative of SVIMS was unveiled during the camp today. The SVIMS director-cum-Vice-Chancellor announced the launch of ‘Health & Hygiene’ programme for women and distributed sanitary napkins to women and schoolgoing girls on Friday. 4,500 packs of sanitary napkins were distributed to women in Kammapalli & SVIMS patients.
“We will work for accumulating funds to continue this programme in future to improve the health and hygiene in women,” said Dr. T. S. Ravikumar. 65 women were screened for breast, cervical & oral cancers during the camp. Alongside, combined SVIMS-Kammapalli PHC team covered 317 households on health status.
