DHARAMSHALA: The Department of Health of the Central Tibetan Administration organised a mobile health education programme in Tibetan settlements, schools and monasteries located in the states of Sikkim and West Bengal in north-eastern India from 2 – 9 December.
“The programme, funded by SOIR IM, was aimed to generate greater consciousness and outreach regarding preventive health among the Tibetan people,” Ngawang Tenzin, co-ordinator for Mother and Child Health and Trinley Palmo, head of Public Health divisions of the Department of Health, told TibetNet.
The two officials visited five Tibetan settlements respectively at Ravangla, Gangtok, Kalimpong, Darjeeling and Sonada to create awareness about health conditions like Hypertension, Tuberculosis, Hepatitis B, HIV AIDS and Cancer. They also gave talks on personal hygiene and oral health at three major Tibetan schools namely CST Kalimpong, CST Darjeeling and CST Sonada along with four major monasteries in this region.
“A total of about 1,684 people benefitted from this mobile health education series in north east regions of India,” they said.
In September this year, over 1,000 people were covered in a similar programme organised in Shillong, Miao and Tezu Tibetan settlements.
