Actor Vishnu Manchu announced Dr.Mohan Babu Rural Health Scheme in the Tirupati region. To begin with his teams consisting of students from Sree Vidyanikethan Educational Trust social responsibility team ‘Army Green’ have begun the scheme in 5 villages in the region.
Soon all the villages in Chandragiri Mandal will be covered and this is going to be an yearly routine henceforth. The aim of this Rural Health Scheme is to reduce child mortality, disease burden in all age groups and to improve maternal health. The village adoption scheme will also enhance access to health services that is scarce in these backward regions.
Under this rural scheme, villagers from the adopted villages will be provided with medical benefit like various medical tests and medicines worth 4 to 5 lakh per individual for free. The main intent of the scheme is to give access to thousands of villagers the basic primary medical benefits. An important aspect of the services is to record the medical diagnosis and treatment history of the beneficiaries that will help the Doctors provide better care in future as well. So the data of thousands of villagers will be stored and can be retrieved by them whenever they want and also every year they can compare their health statistics.