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PRESS RELEASE A day-long, free Health Screening and Awareness Camp for Indian workers in Kuwait was conducted at Abassiya, Kuwait, on April 24, 2009, by the Indian Doctors Forum [IDF], in association with the Kuwait Medical Association. Addressing the participants after inaugurating the Health Camp, the Indian Ambassador to Kuwait, Mr. Ajai Malhotra, emphasized that good health was the greatest possession that a person could have. He expressed gratitude to the Kuwait Medical Association for its patronage of the Health Camp and thanked the Indian Doctors Forum for stepping forward to enhance the health status of the community in Kuwait. He lauded the many Indian doctors and paramedics who had spared their time on a holiday to guide and screen their fellow workers in Kuwait. He also thanked the volunteers of a socio-cultural organization, AMMA Kuwait, for assisting with the arrangements at the Health Camp. Ambassador Malhotra recalled that over the past fortnight he had also been privileged to inaugurate a “School Health Program 2009” at Salmiya, Kuwait. Under that Program, IDF doctors would conduct monthly workshops on health-related issues in each and every Indian school in Kuwait. He noted that the 2009 Program would focus on “childhood obesity”, whose incidence was on the increase and which had a long-term impact on the lives of those affected. The Ambassador also referred appreciatively to the health awareness seminar organized by the Indian Women’s Association, Kuwait, which he had inaugurated in the presence of Sheikha Omniya Abdullah Mubarak Al-Sabah on April 18, 2009. At that Seminar, leading Kuwaiti and Indian doctors had educated participants about cervical cancer and its prevention, vitamin D deficiency and its treatment, and how to identify and prevent brain attacks. Noting that the Indian community in Kuwait had earned a reputation for being hard working, talented and law-abiding, Ambassador Malhotra expressed the hope that such health-related events would also firmly place the Indian community amongst the very healthiest expatriate communities in Kuwait. Addressing the Health Camp participants, Dr. N. Nampoory, past President of the Indian Doctors Forum, assured that the IDF would continue the tradition of conducting such free health screening and awareness camps to benefit Indian workers in Kuwait and indicated that IDF would participate in 4 to 6 of them annually. The Health Screening and Awareness Camp held at Abassiya was attended by over 600 Indian project workers and domestic aides, with about 35 Indian doctors and 50 paramedics providing them with a very wide range of free medical services.
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