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Tuesday - 05 - Oct - 2004
 

Staying mobile for tretment of TB

    A state-of-the -art mobile computerised radiography van to treat TB was inaugurated by the madras High Court Judge Govindarajan here recently.

    The Rotary Club of Madrs Southwest has undertaken the Huma Shasum TB Care Project under which around 100 schools and villages across the State would be covered.

    Supriya Sahu, Joint Secretary, govemment of Tamilnadu, requested the Rotarians to take the facility to the slum and remote areas where people do not have access to medicine.

    Benjamin Cherian, district governor, Rotary International (District 3230), said the TB care project with its mobile facility would be available to the people free of cost.

    Dr Hisamuddin Papa, managing director, Huma Specialists Hospital and Research Centre Private Ltd and also president of Rotary Club of Madras Southwest, said the mobile computerised radiography van was the first-of-its kind in the country and was the dream project of the Rotary Club.