Coast Guard conducts free medical camp

The Coast Guard conducted a free medical camp today to mark its 41st raising day, for which week-long celebrations will be held including a motorcycle rally along the fishing belts of West Bengal and Odisha.
A team of doctors from the Coast Guard (North East region), including a lady gynaecologist for women populace, provided free medical treatment and medicines during the camp at Beonta Kanthalberia Village in Rajarhat of North 24 Parganas district, a Coast Guard spokesman said here.
More than 500 villagers took advantage of the medical camp, where Coast Guard (NE region) commander Inspector General Kuldip Singh Sheoran was the chief guest.

The Coast Guard conducts such medical camps and community interaction programmes frequently in the fishing hamlets, but the event in a village miles away from the coasts was part of the forces appeal to the youth of the state to take up a career in the Indian Coast Guard, the spokesman said.
Coast Guard will conduct a joint motorcycle rally along the fishing belt of West Bengal and Odisha soon, where free medical camps will also be held in the fishing villages enroute.
A newly commissioned vessel of the Coast Guard will be docked at Kolkata Port to showcase the state-of-the-art technology used in the indigenously-built ship named ICGS Sujay for public viewing.