Author: Dr. Sameer Manger
DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.70798/Bijmrd/04100009
Abstract:
Background: Universities in rural and hilly regions can serve as platforms for delivering preventive healthcare while providing healthscience students with supervised community experience. Access to basic screening, consultation and allied health services remains limited in many rural areas of Sikkim.
Objective: To describe the planning, organization, service delivery and student involvement of a one-day multidisciplinary community health camp conducted by Mahatma Gandhi University (MGU), Daramdin, Sikkim, on August 22, 2026 under the theme “A Step Towards a Healthier Community”.
Methods: This descriptive programme report concerns a one-day multidisciplinary community health camp held at Mahatma Gandhi University, Daramdin, Sikkim, on 22 August 2026. Registration, screening, consultation, laboratory testing, dental and eye screening, physiotherapy, and pharmacy services were offered. The revised manuscript is set to a total of 500 participants; all counts and percentages must be verified against the original station registers before submission.
Results: The camp involved multidisciplinary screening, consultation and allied health services, with pharmacy dispensing and counselling and supervised participation by healthscience students. Final servicespecific counts, screening findings and referral outcomes should be reported only after reconciliation with the original camp records.
Conclusion: A university-led multidisciplinary camp built around unique-ID registration, a defined patientflow pathway and supervised student participation was feasible in a rural hill setting. Screening results were treated as indicators needing confirmation, not diagnoses. Systematic follow-up of referred participants and fuller outcome documentation would strengthen future camps.
Keywords: community health camp; preventive healthcare; health screening; student-assisted services; Sikkim; university social responsibility.
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