T.N. CM Stalin inaugurates medical camps beneath Nalam Kaakkum Stalin scheme

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.Ok. Stalin on Saturday (August 2, 2025) inaugurated medical camps throughout all 38 districts within the State organised beneath the ‘Nalam Kaakkum Stalin’ scheme, geared toward taking healthcare to folks’s doorsteps.

“This is the primary stage programme I’m collaborating in, exterior Fort St. George, after being discharged from the hospital,” stated Mr. Stalin, who had been beneath therapy at a non-public hospital in Chennai owing to sure well being points final week. “The initiative is geared toward safeguarding the welfare of the folks of the State. The folks’s welfare is my welfare,” he stated on the inaugural occasion organised by the Health Department at St. Bede’s Anglo-Indian Higher Secondary School advanced in Santhome.

Mr. Stalin stated as a part of the programme, 1,256 camps are being carried out, and precedence is given to rural areas, areas the place particular medical services are fewer, and locations with larger Scheduled Caste inhabitants. There are 200 medical employees, together with docs, in every camp, and so they provide 17 specialised medical companies, he stated.

The Chief Minister additionally stated the camps will prioritise folks from economically weaker sections, these with diabetes and blood stress, coronary heart sufferers, lactating moms, and pregnant girls, amongst others. The check reviews could be given to the beneficiaries in a file, and they’d act as their medical historical past, which can be utilized wherever, Mr. Stalin stated.

“Our goal is to make sure that medical services, which can be found in city areas to those that can afford them, are additionally made accessible to poor folks. In Tamil Nadu, the medical infrastructure is unfold throughout villages,” Mr. Stalin stated. “Camps like these are held to supply medical companies nearer to those that should not in a position to entry hospitals. People ought to make use of it,” he stated.

Mr. Stalin requested the docs to deal with folks coming to them as “medical beneficiaries”, and urged them to take utmost care of them. “Tamil Nadu must be numero uno in all fields. On that foundation, it must be the highest State in providing medical companies and defending the well being of individuals,” he stated.