Dakshina S. Moorthy, consul for labor welfare at the Indian Consulate in Jeddah, made the call while speaking at the inauguration of a free medical camp for the Indian expatriate workers in Jeddah.

The camp was organized by the Khalid bin Walid area chapter of the Kerala Muslim Cultural Congress (KMCC) in cooperation with Shifa Polyclinic in Sharafiyah.

More than 400 expatriates registered themselves for basic medical checkups with the clinic. They were given free medical consultations, clinical tests and health awareness by doctors at the clinic.

Congratulating the KMCC for rendering a service designed to look after the health of the Indian residents in the Kingdom, Moorthy said such services would be especially beneficial to low wage earners, who have limited health facilities in their workplaces.

Appreciating KMCC's future plans to organize such camps in other parts of the city in cooperation with hospitals and polyclinics, the diplomat suggested that these medical services should also be extended to the outskirts of Jeddah where Indian residents really look forward to services of this nature.

Moorthy also took the opportunity to thank the KMCC office bearers P.T. Ahmed, Ahamed Palayat and Mohammed Jaleel for their dedicated community service and also pledged the consulate’s support to carry out service orientation programs to assist Indians living in the western province.

Abdul Rahman, managing director of Shifa Polyclinic, said his establishment would lend its maximum support to organize such camps by Indian associations in the region.