Health scheme launched in Krishnagiri
The Hindu
Varumun Kaapom Health Scheme was launched in 10 blocks here on Tuesday. The scheme will be implemented as 30 camps of three camps each in each of the 10 blocks. Collector V. Jayachandra Bhanu Reddy sa
Varumun Kaapom Health Scheme was launched in 10 blocks here on Tuesday. The scheme will be implemented as 30 camps of three camps each in each of the 10 blocks.
Collector V. Jayachandra Bhanu Reddy said the camps would be conducted under the joint coordination of various departments including health and family welfare, education and rural development, medical college hospital, AIDS Control Society, and National Programme for the Control of Blindness.
With an objective to prevent ailments by screening and providing pre-emptive health care to the needy, the scheme was formally launched by the Chief Minister in Salem in September. The scheme seeks to cover all villages, town panchayats, municipalities and Corporations across the State.
Around 440 MBBS graduates of 2021 are not required to undergo one year of compulsory rural service as per the bond signed by them while joining the medical course through government-quota seats in 2015 as the High Court of Karnataka has said the law, enacted in 2012 for mandatory rural service, remained unenforced for 10 years as it was published in the official gazette only in July 2022.