To understand the health dynamics in the city, Government Medical College (GMC), Srinagar, will do profiling of tribal people of the Fakir Gujri locality.
“The GMC’s Community Medicine Department is starting extensive house-to-house visit in Fakir Gujri, a tribal area of Srinagar, on March 21 to get the health profile of all inhabitants and rate around 350 households on water purification, sanitation, ante-natal care and immunisation,” said Dr Muhammad Salim Khan, head of the department, Social and Preventive Medicine, GMC.
The idea behind the profiling of people is to know the diseases and other health indicators in the tribal community, Dr Khan said.
“We have seen that these people, living on a relatively higher altitude, are not suffering from lifestyle diseases, such as diabetes or hypertension. However, we have reports that many of them are anaemic or suffering from diseases related to malnutrition,” he said.
The HoD said the health of the community was influenced by a complex range of interactive factors, including age, socio-economic status, behaviours, lifestyle, genetic predisposition and access to health and social care.
A referral centre would be established at Fakir Gujri Health Centre for one week with laboratory, ophthalmology and pharmacy support. “Health screening, awareness camps and school health programmes will be conducted by a team of doctors,” he said. MBBS students of GMC, Srinagar, would carry out the health profiling, Dr Khan added.
GMC to do health profiling of Fakir Gujri
