2100 benefited from Nobel health camp at Phidim

PANCHTHAR: NOV. 16 – More than 2100 patients have benefited from the two-day free health camp at Phidim in Panchthar. Phidim Municipality-8 has organized a two-day camp on Sunday and Monday with the help of Phidim Municipality by bringing doctors from Nobel Teaching Hospital in Biratnagar.

Narayan Dahal, manager of Nobel Teaching Hospital, said that 2,133 patients were treated free of cost in the two-day camp. According to Dahal, video X-rays of 480 people, blood tests of 524 people and heart examination (ECG) of 395 people have been done in the camp.

Similarly, general eye surgery has been performed on 28 patients. So far, the teeth of 72 patients with dental problems have been extracted. At the camp, specialists from Nobel’s Department of General Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Pediatrics, Orthopedics, Skin and Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Otolaryngology, Ophthalmology, and Dentistry are examining patients.

Aiming at poor and needy patients, Nobel has been conducting free health camps in various districts of Eastern Nepal.