Phalebash (Parbat), March 5: A five-day free health camp was held in a remote village here providing much – needed treatment facilities to over a thousand villagers.
The cost-free health camp at Lunkhudeurali VDC in southern Parbat allowed the poverty-stricken villagers, who had been hiding their diseases owing to insufficient money for treatment, to seek the necessary remedy.
A total of 1,350 villagers were treated at the camp. The camp also provided free dental, hydrocele and hernia surgeries.
Camp Management Committee Coordinator, Jivan Thakuri, said 1,268 villagers underwent dental treatments while hydrocele and hernia surgeries were conducted on 45 others.
Lead by senior surgeon, Dr Rabin Koirala, the medical team at the camp included eight doctors from Australia, dental specialist, Dr Surya Magar including six Nepali doctors and 11 health workers.
The camp also provided checkups and treatments for stomach ailment, lungs, heart diseases, arthritis and women and children’s diseases and provided services including video x-ray.
