Orissa Diary reported that Vedanta Aluminum Limited, Lanjigarh organized a free Health Camp at Chandanpur village in Lanjigarh block of Kalahandi district, Orissa on June 22nd 2011 at which nearly 300 villagers were examined and were distributed with medicines free of cost. The health Camp catered mostly people of nearby villages like Jodabandha, Gopinathapur, Nutanbaterlima, Khamankhunti and Chandanpur.

Dr Mukesh Kumar said that “Vedanta Aluminium is concerned and will always take care the health care of tribal people in the region. We regularly organize health camps at nearby villages to make a healthy society around Lanjigarh. Recently we organized camps at Chhatrapur, Basantpada etc.”

Present on the occasion from VAL were Dr R C Rout head CSR, Ms Niharika Sahoo, Ms Sweety Mukherjee, Mr Surya Panigrahi and Mr Padmini Sahu of CSR department. CDPO Pragyan Rani Barik was also present along with many Local leaders of Chandanpur.

Dr Sabita Swain chief medical officer of Vedanta Hospital, Dr Malaya Tripathy, MO (I/c) Govt. Hospital, Biswanthapur, Dr S K Mishra, MS (Ortho), Dr A K Sahu, Vedanta Aluminum Limited were present at the Health Camp to treat the patient.

Health & MHU Team of VAL went to nearby villages of the venue as a part of pre-publicity step to inform the villagers about the camp and doctors availability during the Health Camp about a week back.

(Sourced from www.orissadiary.com)