A medical camp for sanitary workers titled ‘Healthy Kovai’, an initiative by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) – Young Indians (Yi), was launched by Corporation Commissioner K Vijayakarthikeyan today.

Around 2,500 sanitary workers will benefit from this health camp. Per the purposed plan, medical camps will be organised in various wards on 10 & 24 December 2016 and 7 January 2017.

Thyrocare India, ITC’s CSR division Well-being Out of Waste (WOW) and Rathna Group, besides nine leading hospitals from the city, are part of this initiative.

The Commissioner in his speech appreciated the efforts taken to bring in leading hospitals from across the city as partners in this initiative, particularly in reference to the target recipients being the health guardians (sanitary workers) of our city. He assured the organisers that the corporation will provide every support to the initiative.

Vishnu Prabhakar, Shri Kumaravelu and Dr Aishwarya Arjun of the Yi Healthcare team made a presentation explaining the process in which the camps are planned to be conducted.