Health Camp at Kahawatta
Health Camp organized by Medical Students' Hindu Society of our faculty was held on 24th and 25th of this month at Kahawatta Tamil Maha Vidayalyam, Ratnapura. It is my 5th medical camp, in the faculty starting from Mannar, Poonakari, Udappu, Deniyaya. As usual I was assigned to vision care. The first day was for screening of school children which was done by medical students and second day was for the public and referred school children done by doctors. It was crowded from the start till the end. Why do we have to do a free health camp in a country where a health care up to tertiary care is free. Even when government has decentralized the health care, with each province having its own general hospital with specialists. What amazes me is that people come with chronic problems and want to sort it out in one day, but all we do in the camp for them is to refer them to the hospitals. So where is the problem? It is either people are unaware of how to access health care or they are misg...