Helping people at the medical camp was an incredibly humbling experience. Seeing the gratitude in their eyes, despite the challenges they face, reminded me of the profound impact compassion and care can have.

The mammography bus had come to her neighbouring village near ­Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, to screen women for breast and cervical ­cancer. “I was asymptomatic, hence did not feel the need to go through such a medical procedure. But following an awareness campaign by Rotarians, I went for the screening inside the ­diagnostic bus. I was shocked to know that I had an early-stage cancerous lesion on the cervix.” She then underwent a minor surgery to remove the lesion at a hospital in Coimbatore. Ditto is the case of Rani (58), her friend, who was detected with a ­tumorous lump in her breast at the Rotary camp.

With the implementation of its first global grant, the Rotary Club of Rourkela Royal, RI District 3261, has taken a big leap

In keeping with its legacy of providing eyecare to the poor and marginalised, RID 3291 has shifted its Joynagar Eye Hospital.

Assam health minister Keshab Mahanta inaugurated three ­state-of-art facilities — a blood bank, an eye hospital and a ­physiotherapy unit — at the KGMT Hospital.

It is sad that several rural women cannot differentiate a normal period from an abnormal one. They have no idea