SCB doctors visit Nuapada to provide super specialist clinical services
The team arrived with the necessary equipment and medicines and will camp at the district headquarters hospital until July 24. The team comprised Dr Bhawani Shankar Dhal, Dr Biswajit Mohanty, Dr Lincoln Patel, Dr Sananda Kumar Sethi, Dr Sonalika Behera, and Dr Pankaj Kumar Maravi.
Around 632 patients from various parts of Nuapada district were screened and enlisted for treatment under the scheme. "This team conducted case-by-case analysis of each patient and prepared them for the necessary treatment and interventions by a senior expert team that visited the district on Tuesday," said an official statement from the health and family welfare department.
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