Nalam Kaakkum Stalin health camps inaugurated in Tiruchi

Chief Minister M.K. Stalin, through video conferencing, inaugurated medical camps organised under the Nalam Kaakkum Stalin scheme in Tiruchi on Saturday.

Under the scheme, 46 medical camps, including four within the Corporation limits and 42 in 14 blocks, will be conducted in the district. The camps are aimed at taking healthcare to people’s doorstep, especially the poor who had diabetes and high blood pressure, heart patients, lactating mothers, and pregnant women.

Specialists from various departments would participate in the medical camps, where people could get checked for blood pressure, diabetes, and screened for early stages of cancer. They could receive an echogram, X-ray, ECG, and ultrasound scan.