Gandaki. Pokhara Metropolitan City (KMC) has provided free screening and counselling services for non-communicable diseases to 11,862 people under the ‘Ghar Ghar Health Programme’.

Senior citizens, disabled and helpless citizens have benefited from the program, which was conducted in 10 wards of the metropolis from June 1to Thursday.

Harilal Acharya, the facilitator of the program, said that ward no. Health services have been provided in the settlements of 1, 8, 10, 13, 14, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 25. He informed that the metropolis has allocated budget for the programme in the coming fiscal year as well. The programme was started from Simalchaur of Pokhara-8 in coordination with the Health Division and urban health management center and was conducted in other wards and tols.

Chief of Urban Health Promotion Centre, Kushma Raj Subedi, said that the mobile campaign has been launched with the objective of providing health services to senior and disabled people by reaching their doorsteps. Along with the screening of non-communicable diseases, the women were given information about reproductive health, psychiatric, infectious diseases and other chronic diseases.

“About 60 per cent of those tested were diagnosed with high blood pressure and patients with diabetes, breathing, breast and uterine problems,” he said. Mobile camps were organized in 17 tolas of Ward No. 8. A total of 1,200 people of the ward were provided services.