Leh: A 5-day free medical camp to be organized in Kargil by Asoka Mission in collaboration with Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council (LAHDC) Kargil from 26-30 September 2022 at the District Hospital.
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The camp will be attended by 13 super-specialist doctors from different departments of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, as listed below.
All those who are interested in consulting the doctors are requested to come at the aforementioned date and place.
Asoka Mission is a nonprofit registered society founded in 1948, and headed by Venerable Lama Lobzang since 1975. The organization has been engaged for the last 4 decades in providing charitable medical care to the people of Ladakh.
As part of its medicare initiative, Asoka Mission facilitates patients suffering from complex or advanced diseases like cancer, neurological disorders, cardiological diseases, to receive super-specialist treatment at AIIMS New Delhi. Focus is given on helping patients hailing from the remote areas of Ladakh or economically weak backgrounds. For the most needy patients, free accommodation is also provided in the premises of Asoka Mission in New Delhi.
Asoka Mission has been organizing free annual medical camps in Ladakh for 25 years with the help of super-specialist doctors from AIIMS. Thousands of patients have been screened free of cost at these camps, and the serious patients have received guidance for further treatment of their illnesses. Free medicines have also been distributed during the camps.
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In 2022, Asoka Mission organized a mega super-speciality medical camp in Leh, in which 3500 patients were screened, more than 100 surgeries were performed, including 85 eye surgeries, and about 100 patients diagnosed with serious illnesses were referred for further treatment at AIIMS.
In addition to the upcoming camp in Kargil, Asoka Mission will organize one more medical camp this year: a mega surgical camp in Leh from 9-15 Oct. 2022 in which knee replacement, hip replacement and plastic surgeries will be performed.
