Background: Primary Health Care through chains of healthcare
centres across the nation has been an ambitious goal for India. Accordingly,
infrastructure set up, and staffing done. Over the decades great strides have
been made. However, reasons beyond our control metabolic diseases have come in.
We aim at finding the burden of non-communicable diseases at the most
peripheral unit.
Method: A health team consisting of doctor, auxillary
nurse, Lab technician, Councillor and health auxillaries visited a village
selected by systematic random sampling method. This village has 353 families
with a population of 2496.The study procedures were explained to the people and
obtained consent before. All the adult persons were encouraged to attend the
mobile clinic in their neighbourhood. The demographic details were recorded,
blood pressure, blood sugar tested as per standard procedure and clinical
examination made.
Result: A total of 2,001 persons attended. The results
revealed 148 persons having hypertension, 101 persons having high blood sugar,
3 persons having neoplasm, 9 persons having coronary artery stents, 6 persons
with stroke and 11 persons with alcohol abuse.
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