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Guidelines For Health Camps

The state government of Odisha has issued new stringent guidelines regulating health camps organized by NGOs and other groups. Under the new rules, organizations must seek permission from authorities one month in advance to hold health camps. This comes after controversies from botched sterilization surgeries in Chhattisgarh that killed 13 women and unsafe practices at a camp in Odisha. The guidelines require organizations to submit applications to local medical officers and meet registration requirements to ensure future health camps are better organized and follow safety norms.

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Guidelines For Health Camps

The state government of Odisha has issued new stringent guidelines regulating health camps organized by NGOs and other groups. Under the new rules, organizations must seek permission from authorities one month in advance to hold health camps. This comes after controversies from botched sterilization surgeries in Chhattisgarh that killed 13 women and unsafe practices at a camp in Odisha. The guidelines require organizations to submit applications to local medical officers and meet registration requirements to ensure future health camps are better organized and follow safety norms.

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Guidelines for health camps

Our Correspondent

Bhubaneswar, Jan. 18: Non-governmental organisations (NGOs), charitable trusts and civil society activists
will have to seek the permission of the state government for organising free health camps.

Cataract and sterilisation operations along with free medical check-ups are done in these camps.

Sources said the government has come out with a stringent guideline to regulate health camps following
controversies sparked off by the recent botched up sterilisation surgeries in neighbouring Chhattisgarh that left
13 women dead and the use of bicycle pumps to dilate the cervix of women undergoing tubectomy surgery at a
camp held in Angul district in November last year.

Following a hue and cry over the Angul incident which breached all safety norms, the government was forced to
suspend the additional district medical officer of Angul, Shankarlal Agarwal.

Official sources said that organisers who want to hold health camps have to seek permission of authorities one
month in advance for holding health camps in the future.

National Rural Health Mission (Odisha) unit head Rupa Mishra said: "Government's guidance will help in better
organisation of future health camps in the state."

As per the guidelines issued by the health department, organisations, individuals, charitable trusts, civil society
groups or corporate houses proposing to organise such camps will be required to submit applications either to
the chief district medical officer (CDMO) or additional district medical officer (public health) in a prescribed
format for seeking permission.

While in the case of urban areas, including municipal corporation areas, permission will be granted only by the
additional district medical officer, in rural areas, a committee under the chief district medical officer will be solely
authorised to accord permission for holding the health camps.

As per the new guildelines, an organisation seeking to hold health camps must be a registered as a society or
trust under the Company's Act or any other act or registered with premier professional bodies like the Indian
Medical Association (IMA) or the Federation of Obstetric and Gynaecological and Societies of India (FOGSI).

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