Guwahati : Assam Rifles Changlang battalion keeping up to the Motto “Friends of the North East people” conducted a medical camp at Shallang village to provide medical aid and relief to Shallang, Ngechang, old Shallang, Lunglong, Rangrang, Watlom and surrounding villages in Arunachal Pradesh on Monday.
Shallang is one of the remote villages of Changlang District near the Indo-Myanmar border with little or no availability of medical facilities.
Kohima based Defence PRO Colonel Chiranjeet Konwer said that, the camp provided necessary medical aid and relief to 120 patients of these villages.
The patients were provided free medicines and medical consultation, also a health awareness education class was conducted by Regimental Medical Officer and staff of medical Platoon of the battalion.
(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)
