EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, May 1: Recognizing the role of religious organizations as supporters of health interventions, Dr. Sushil Sharma held a day long health check up-cum-awareness camp in collaboration with Dogra Brahmin Pratinidhi Sabha, Jammu on the occasion of Shri Parshuram Jayanti. He stated that religious organizations, across religious denominations and congregation size and structures, can serve as key implementation sites for health promotion and disease prevention to reach the marginalized population. He underscored the need to designate religious organizations as natural partners and relevant stakeholders for the delivery of health promotion programs due to a number of factors.
Dr. Sushil particularly highlighted the positive role of religious institutions during COVID-19 outbreak when it was difficult to make people understand necessary advisories related to burial of deceased and essential rituals attached to them. Due to the timely intervention of religious leaders and institutions, we observed complete prohibition regarding visit to places of worship.
More than 200 patients were examined, evaluated and advised during the camp. ECG, Blood Sugar was conducted and medicines were also given as per the requirements Management committee of the Dogra Brahman Pratinidhi Sabha including Vaid Parkash Sharma (President), M L Sharma, Shiv Ram Sharma, Jagan Nath, Chander Mohan, K K Sharma, Subhash Sharma, Ramesh Sharma, Tarsem Lal and Soujanya Sharma expressed their heartfelt gratitude to Dr. Sushil and his team for organizing medical-cum-health awareness camp. Others who were part of this camp include Dr S K Bali (Nephrologist), Dr Lakeshwer Khajuria (Dy Comdt. BSF), Dr Anitipal Singh, Dr Danish Naik. Paramedics and Volunteers include Kamal Sharma, Raghav Rajput, Rajinder Singh, Aman Gupta, Akshay Kumar, Rajesh Suri, Milan Kapoor, Maninder Singh, Narinder Mahajan, Vinod Sharma, Vikas Kumar, Gourav Sharma, Rajkumar, Ranjeet Singh and Amandeep Singh.
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