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Wintrobe Hospital doctors to attend GPC media clinic

The city based Wintrobe Hospital will conduct the next weekly evening OPD clinic at Guwahati Press Club (GPC) on 10 June. A team of doctors representing the department of advanced urology & kidney diseases at the hospital, under the leadership of Dr Arup Kumar Nath will be available for free consultations to member-journalists of the press club along with their dependants. Nitin Gupta (urologist & andrologist), Dr Debajit Baishya (urologist and uro-oncosurgeon) and Dr Pradip Timung (medicine) will attend the camp beginning at 4 pm (will continue till 6 pm).

Diagnosed patients or apprehensions for haematuria, ureteric stricture, kidney stone, bladder and ureteric stone, urinary problem, bladder tumor, kidney tumor, prostate cancer, male infertility etc may join in the camp. The participants in the Saturday camp, organized under the GPC initiative titled ‘Evening with a Doctor’, will also get the opportunity to check their blood pressure & sugar. The last evening clinic on 3 June was conducted by Dr Samarjyoti Bora, consultant urologist from GNRC Hospitals, where he offered healthcare consultations to over 40 participants. The previous camp on 27 May was attended by Dr Ashwin Rajagopal, a consultant on surgical oncology at Manipal Hospitals Bangalore. The participants also got their blood pressure checked in both the camps.

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