Date:29/11/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/11/29/stories/2008112957790300.htm

Poor people who cannot afford expensive medicare should make use of the services being rendered by non-governmental organisations (NGOs) Indian Medical Association president G.Samaram said. Inaugurating a free medical camp being conducted by the Indian Red Cross Society, Krishna District Unit, at the old community hall in Rajiv Nagar, he said NGOs were extending medicare to the poor by conducting various free medical camps. He urged the poor to make optimum use of these camps and protect their health. Dentist Sridhar Reddy, ENT specialist Singari Prabhakar, general physician C.S.R.Prasada Rao, eye specialists K.Sivaramakrishna and K.Chankravarti participated in the camp.