emed & All Pakistan Diabetes & Endocrine Society is targeting poor localities more where there is no health education & awareness, where people are more poor & more prone towards the quacks & don't afford to go for the laboratory tests & treatment.

Jaranwala is in the periphery of Faisalabad & thickly populated rural area that fulfils all the criteria given above.

On Sunday, 2.11.2008, team of emed doctors, para medical staff & laboratory staff reached the Mussarat Memorial lab Jaranwala.

Doctors included medical specialists as Dr Ahmad Zeeshan Chughtai, Dr Owais Fazal & Dr Lubna Nadeem with their colleagues Dr Tahir, Dr Shahid & Dr Mohammad Irfan. Paramedical staff was in the charge of Mr Husnain.

People were offered following screening tests & facilities:

§         Sugar Checking

§         Cholesterol Checking

§         Doppler studies of Blood vessels

§         BMI Calculation

§         Calcium and Minerals Calculation

§         Body and Visceral Fat Calculation

§         Blood Pressure Checking

§         Diabetic Counseling

§         Weight Reduction Counseling

§         Healthy Life Style Counseling

§         Diet and Exercise Counseling

§         Counseling regarding Thyroid Disease

§         Counseling regarding Other Endocrine Diseases

In total, 500 people were screened out & it was seen that weakness of bones is more common in women and the people which came to know for the first time that they had high sugar levels or blood pressure belonged to 20-30 years of age group.

Camp continued from 9:00 a.m to 6:00 p.m