Bihar to Launch Health Drive for Poor on Jan. 28

The Bihar government will launch a three-month-long health drive 'Swasthya Chetna Yatra' from Saturday, Jan. 28, 2012 to treat some 10 million poor people. Officials hope to reach out to the poorest of the poor in the rural parts.

"The 'Swasthya Chetna Yatra' will end April 30," Bihar Health Minister Ashwani Kumar Choubey said. Choubey said doctors would go to rural areas which normally lack health facilities.

"At the health camps, specialized doctors, yoga trainers and Ayurvedic and Unani experts would be involved," he said.