Why India Needs Free Health Camps?

Free health camps are camps organized in different parts of a country for a short period of time. They are organized according to specific health needs of a given location. Their main aim is to promote long-term health-seeking behavior and building awareness for the most common ailments, methods of family planning, nutrition, hygiene, and sanitation. Health camps in India provide these health services and more for free. In most cases these camps are organized with support from well-wishers, other cooperate organizations and the government. Many Indian citizens have benefited from these camps. To be more specific over 25,000 people have benefited directly from the free camps.

India is a country that still struggles with providing basic health services to its people to date with so many decades of freedom. Mostly lack or inadequate health services are experienced largely in rural areas. According to verified information from the government sources, 45 kids die each hour due to respiratory diseases; one infant dies after every 2 minutes from diarrhea.Annual health reports indicate that two million children who are under the age of five years old die due to diseases which can be prevented. This scenario calls for immediate diagnosis and care which will reduce mortality rates, especially in children and women. This can be provided by free health camps. Free health camps in India are organized to meet the immediate health care needs of the less privileged communities in rural areas and those residents residing in slums. Free health camps in India offer comprehensive health care services. The services offered are curative, preventive, diagnostic and referral in nature. During that short period when the camp is set the experts work extra hard and smart to provide the best and much-needed services to a large number of people in a given area.Different projects are carried out during camps and they involve different disciplines (multi-disciplinary projects). They include Pediatric, Gynecological, Surgical services, and Ophthalmology. The intervention strategies are general in nature in most cases. Duration of most camps varies between one day and 15 days and their frequencies range between a month and a year.A medical camp is unique when the model lies in its comprehensive approach. An approach chosen by any camp should give equal importance to health promotion and prevention even when treatment is being administered.

Conclusion

To reach an optimal level of health is a dynamic process, and to achieve this optimal level, institutions, individual and the community have to work together in close coordination. There's need to invest in the free health camps and in that way maximum benefits would be experienced.