Rourkela Steel Plant's project 'Chetna' covers 4500 people
'Chetna', a new health-care project launched by Rourkela Steel Plant(RSP), has so far covered more than 4500 people living in and around the steel city, RSP sources said.
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ROURKELA: ' Chetna', a new health-care project launched by Rourkela Steel Plant(RSP), has so far covered more than 4500 people living in and around the steel city, RSP sources said on Saturday.
Commenced in March, 2010, the project aimed at providing treatment to people affected with anaemia and counselling Thalassemia and Sickle Cell patients.
Cases of Sickle Cell anaemia are found more in Chhatisgarh, Orissa, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand and Maharashtra while Thalassemia is prevalent throughout the country with differing intensity, the sources said.
RSP, under its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), has so far organised 22 health camps with the help of an NGO "Sankalpa" in different model steel villages as well as educational institutes where screening of anaemia is being carried out.
Officials of CSR department and medical staff and doctors of RSP-run Ispat General Hospital (IGH) have screened the anaemia positive cases by advanced medical techniques to look for Thalassemia and Sickle Cell anaemia as well as Haemoglobinopathy.
A high performance Liquid Chromatograph machine has been set up at IGH for this purpose that automatically generates the blood test reports from the available blood samples, the source said.
Commenced in March, 2010, the project aimed at providing treatment to people affected with anaemia and counselling Thalassemia and Sickle Cell patients.
Cases of Sickle Cell anaemia are found more in Chhatisgarh, Orissa, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand and Maharashtra while Thalassemia is prevalent throughout the country with differing intensity, the sources said.
RSP, under its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), has so far organised 22 health camps with the help of an NGO "Sankalpa" in different model steel villages as well as educational institutes where screening of anaemia is being carried out.
Officials of CSR department and medical staff and doctors of RSP-run Ispat General Hospital (IGH) have screened the anaemia positive cases by advanced medical techniques to look for Thalassemia and Sickle Cell anaemia as well as Haemoglobinopathy.
A high performance Liquid Chromatograph machine has been set up at IGH for this purpose that automatically generates the blood test reports from the available blood samples, the source said.
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