Atlanta's Shifa Clinic Participates in Pakistani and Indian Physician Groups' Health Fair
This past Sunday, ICNA Relief's Shifa Clinic Atlanta participated in the annual health fair at Global Mall Norcross, Georgia organized by APPNA (Association of Physicians of Pakistan Descent of North America) and GAPI (Georgia Association of Physicians of Indian Heritage).
This is the first time that Georgia's APPNA chapter and GAPI arranged a health fair jointly and was attended by over 350 people.
This health fair had several doctor and health care provider booths in a variety of areas including primary care, cardiology, nephrology, psychiatry, and dentistry to name a few. They offered preventive health screenings such as medical, dental and vision screening, nutrition and diabetes counseling, flu shots, and bone marrow and mammogram screening registry.
ICNA Relief's Shifa Clinic Atlanta management team including Br. Uzair, Br. Ghulam Naseer, Br. Nadeem and Br. Bakher along with several volunteers who organized their booth at the APPNA health fair. Just like last year's APPNA fair, Atlanta's Shifa Clinic had the busiest booth where more than 200 participants got free Lipid Profile tests. In addition, several uninsured and poor patients were given referrals to Shifa Clinic. Free on-site consultation and counseling was provided to all participants by Shifa Atlanta's consultants Dr. Arshad, Dr. Goheer and Dr. Hassan.
Shifa Clinic Atlanta's team and members were highly appreciated for their professionalism, hard work and dedication by several health fair participants, physicians and mainly by the health fair organizing team of APPNA GA Chapter President Dr. Asif Taufeeq and by GAPI President Indran Indrakrishnan.
Georgia Governor Nathan Deal, who was invited at the health fair, also expressed his appreciation to the organizers and participants of the health fair for providing needed services to the community.
"ICNA Relief Shifa Clinic management team is humbled and thankful to Allah SWT and APPNA for being a part of a highly successful and well organised health fair," said Br. Uzair "We look forward to do more joint ventures like this with APPNA in future to serve our community the best we can, InshaAllah."