Free health check-up camps reach 473 women in five villages

With support from the CottonConnect Farmer Community Foundation, SSKK ran free medical screening camps for women at Chital, Lathi, Khambha, Timbi and Dhokadva. 473 women attended.

Each camp offered consultation with a gynaecologist and a physician, with medicines dispensed based on the diagnosis, and a health education session covering topics that rarely get discussed openly in the village.

The camps exist because access, not willingness, is the binding constraint. A woman managing a household, farm labour and childcare does not have a spare day to travel to a district hospital on the chance that a doctor will be free — so the doctor comes to her.

Support for space and coordination came from Primary Health Centres in the programme area, with the Alipore Social Welfare Trust and the Rotary Club of Chikhali Riverfront providing the medical van.