Berhampur: Berhampur Municipal Corporation (BeMC) on Sunday launched ‘Arogyam’, a free neighborhood well being screening facility for labourers and poor folks residing in slums.

As per the programme, the volunteers would cowl all 168 slum pockets which beneath the BeMC in 60 to 80 days to gather mandatory well being database. The knowledge collected by means of superior laboratory exams will probably be analysed to map the illness inclined and illness burden areas as part of Integrated Health Surveillance.

It will even promote consciousness about non-communicable ailments (NCD) and communicable ailments (CD) with a selected technique among the many slum inhabitants who will not be coated by superior testing beneath the general public well being programme, stated Ganjam collector Divyajyoti Parida.

Necessary primary investigation will probably be carried out by digital diagnostic gadgets with cellular software. The gadgets embrace digital blood stress measurement instrument, digital blood glucometer to check sugar stage, digital hemoglobin meter for hemoglobin estimation, digital physique composition analyser for full physique check-up, stadiometer for top measurement, thermometer for physique temperature, disposable tongue depressor for oral most cancers screening, digital pulse oximetry for oxygen stage, digital stethoscope for coronary heart price and coronary heart place, digital lipid analyser for complete ldl cholesterol and electrocardiogram for fast detection of coronary heart issues and monitor the guts’s well being.

The venture is carried out with a value of round Rs 76.53 lakh. If the findings of the programme are passable, will probably be prolonged to non-slum areas of BeMC, official sources stated.