‘Evening With A Doctor’ Program At Press Club

By NJ Thakuria

‘Evening with a Doctor’ program at press club By Our Correspondent Guwahati: Emphasizing on preventive healthcare initiatives for the media persons a special program titled ‘Evening with a Doctor’ has been planned at the premises of Guwahati Press Club (GPC) of northeast India.

Under this program a practicing doctor will be available for free consultations on healthcare issues for the benefit of GPC member-journalists along with their close relatives. The doctor, representing any government or private hospital, will arrive at press club on every Saturday by 5 pm and continue the consultations till 8 pm.

A number of city based hospitals has already agreed to support the initiative of the press club providing their qualified physicians of different departments to the program on a regular interval.

The program, scheduled to start by next month, is also expected to help the interested scribes to understand various aspects of healthcare in a better way that would finally encourage them to cover the vital issue with more authenticities, said GPC secretary Nava Thakuria in a statement issued to the media.