Heart of Peshawar Clinic project organised a Free medical camp held for journalists
PESHAWAR: The Heart of Peshawar Clinic (HPC) project organised a free medical camp at the Peshawar Press Club to facilitate the newspersons.
The staff of the organisation did free medical check-up by carrying out several tests. A team of consultants was also present thereof to further advise the newspersons.
Talking on the occasion, the HPC staff members said the project had been functioning in collaboration with Friends of Pakistan and Tanzeem Lis-Sail Wal Mahroom Peshawar since November 2007 under the qualified and experienced doctors. They said that the project had been focusing on prevention and treatment of blood sugar, blood pressure, cholesterol and obesity.
The staff said that NWFP and Balochistan had been affected by the situations created by the Afghan refugees for the last 30 years. They said the mental depression, poverty and war had led to increasing use of drugs among the people specially youths of two provinces.
The in-charge said so far 65 outdoor camps had been held and the patients were being charged nominal fee of Rs50 for examination in Hayatabad Surgical Hospital, PIMS and Al-Khidmat Hospital.
The head-office of the Heart of Peshawar Clinic was shifted to Al-Khidmat Hospital where C
ardiac, Diabetes and Stroke (CDS Centre) would be opened on March 1st while its sub-office, which was currently operating at Gulberg, was already functioning under Dr Riaz Shahid by holding free Life Style Management camp.
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