Press release: SANN’s Health Fair in Salem, North Carolina during Labor Day weekend

Enepalese Published on: September 12, 2019

The North Carolina Chapter of Society of American Nepalese Nurses (SANN) and TNCC successfully hosted a health fair during the NASeA/ANMA Convention on Saturday, August 31, 2019 in Salem, North Carolina. The health fair had many booths such as blood checks for lipid panel and fasting blood sugar (68 individuals), CPR/AED awareness, and free dental evaluations were done. Additionally, there were booths for colon cancer screening kits, and patients’ checkup. A lot of patients benefitted directly from the blood tests, health checkups and colon cancer screening. A lot of people ranging from youths to adults participated in the CPR/AED awareness session during the fair.

SANN would like to express sincere thanks to all volunteer doctors, nurses, other health professionals and individuals for their services to the community. SANN’s volunteer nurses ran the show and they are stars of the health fair. A congratulatory salute to all of them. Those volunteers are Dr. Laxman Pokhrel, Dr. Dron Bhandari, Dr. Govinda Aryal, Dr. Rupak Thapa, Dr. Ananta, Dr. Titesh Poudyal, Dr. Sanjeev Sapkota, Dilpreet Kaur (dental hygienist), Dr. Dipendra Subedi, Sabitri Ranabhat, Nilam Joshi, Shanta Paudel Subedi, Sunita Ranabhat, Anju Luitel, Manju Sharma, Rinki Yadav, Muna Paudel, Nikunja Shrestha, Bishnu Paudel, Resham Gharti, Manju Sangraula and students Atari Chaurasiya and Anu Sangraula.

We thank all the generous donors with great appreciation. The media is the main vehicle to carry our message to the community. We express our sincere thanks to Enepalese.com, DC Nepal, and all who spread our message to their networks and social media. Our sincere thanks go to the NASeA/ANMA convention, and North Carolina Chapter of SANN with all nurse volunteers who spent countless hours, days and nights in preparation of the health fair. There are many more friends who supported our program in different ways. We would like to thank all of them with the greatest appreciation. If we missed mentioning any name or information, please forgive us for this unintentional error.
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Regards,
SANN Team