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GAURI OLD AGE MISSION

Preventive measures and optimal treatment need to start very early and continue lifelong. Elderly population, more than 65 years of age, is vulnerable to these events. This is especially true for the population with high blood pressure and diabetes. The prevalence of these problems is of the order of 45 percent and 15 percent respectively in the elderly. For this reason, we have decided to aggressively target this group. The senior citizens commonly have several problems, which need empathetic care by the medical personnel. Besides High blood pressure, diabetes and heart diseases there are a host of problems which need to be kept in mind when managing these patients who often have other age related co existing problems. The medical team of GKF has launched a specific program named “Gauri Old Age Mission (GOAM). Every Friday the Gauri Heart Centre conducts a special OPD for these individuals where a team led by a Geriatric consultant evaluates these people.

TEAM

Dr Zubair Saleem
(M.D) is a consulting geriatrician (specialist for elderly people). Fellow of Geriatric Society of India, member of American Geriatric Society and Life member of Orthopaedic Geriatric Society of India, Zubair is actively involved in providing his clinical assistance to the underprivileged elderly of our society. He is presently In-charge Department of Geriatric Medicine, Government JLNM Hospital, Rainawari, Srinagar.

Work Done

Gauri Kaul Foundation on Friday 2nd July 2021 organised a specialised medical camp for patients with heart diseases, diabetes, hypertension and other comorbidities at Leper Colony Bahrar Srinagar. Around 100 patients were treated while maintaining the strict level of Covid-19 protocol. Most of them were more than 60 years old. Besides complete physical examination and comprehensive history taking, patients were tested for spot NTproBNP, CK-MB, D-Dimer, Myoglobin, troponin I, BMI, blood sugar, ECG and blood pressure. Blood samples for other ailments were also taken. The free starter kits (medicines) for one month were distributed among all the patients which included medicines for hypertension, diabetes, nutrient supplements.

Leper Colony Medicine project

We took a decision to adopt the inmates of the Leper colony, Srinagar for providing free medical care in collaboration with our partner, Greater Kashmir Media. During these camps we observed the problems of elderly population who have many other additional co morbidities like joint problems, old strokes, issues of hearing and vision, chronic kidney disease, cancers etc. This made us to modify our methodology of the evaluation and formed Gauri Old Age Mission (GOAM) to look after the senior citizen differently with geriatric medicine as a component and adding specialists in our mission. LEPER COLONY PDF

Under our flagship Gauri Old Age Mission, Gauri Kaul Foundation conducted a free medical camp of the elderly population Friday, July 9, 2021 at Trikolbal , Pattan. 110 patients were screened for geriatric and heart related problems.

Next camp by Gauri Old age Mission (GOAM) under the leadership of Prof U Kaul, went with a team to Ring Zabal Budgam for a one-day Healthy Heart Camp for senior citizen on Friday 16th July 2021. We evaluate 90 persons who had registered to see us. Some of the striking findings were absence of obesity and a low body weight. Blood pressure (B P), blood sugar estimation and an electrocardiogram were recorded in all. We did electrocardiograms (ECG’s) for all the participants. In general, they were normal but 4 persons had classical ECGs of previous heart attacks and had no clue of this although all had classical symptoms of shortness of breath. We made them aware of this fact and prescribed appropriate medicines with supply for 30 days and counselled them to see us at Gauri Heart Centre, Srinagar for further evaluation as per our GOAM protocol. This would be free of cost.

Gauri Kaul Foundation held a specialised medical camp for elderly patients with heart diseases and other comorbidities at Hassanpora,Bijbehara district Anantnag on Friday 30 Jul, 2021 Though the organisers had registered 135 patients for the camp, more than 300 patients turned up to the camp. Even young patients with minor pain and small issues were seen making long queues. ECG, lipid profiles, random blood sugar, LFT, KFT, and Thyroid tests were conducted during the camp