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Vivek Oberoi, Om Puri, Sushant Singh, Amit Behl, Manoj Joshi and others grace CINTAA Health Camp for members

The Cine and Television Artistes’ Association (CINTAA) in association with Cancer Patients’ Aid Association organized a health camp for its members at the CINTAA office, Andheri (West). Actor Vivek Oberoi, veteran actor and CINTAA President, Om Puri, CINTAA General Secretary Sushant Singh, Jt Secretary Amit Behl, Vice President Manoj Joshi among the others graced the event.

General health, ENT, Diabetes, gynaecology and dental check-ups were successfully carried out besides Pap Smear Test (Female), routine blood test among others.

“Lawyers, soldiers, sportsmen and actors – these are four kinds of people who need to do routine checkups.  As actors, we have erratic schedules and often drive ourselves to exhaustion and tiredness. Only when things get too complicated, do we actually realize we have a medical problem. For us, it is not just physical exhaustion, it is mental exhaustion, as much,” said Amit Behl.

Avered Sushant Singh, “As a proactive organization, member welfare is always important and this is one initiative where we actors actually find time to keep abreast of our health conditions, as well as meet each other”.

Vivek Oberoi said, “It is a great step taken by CINTAA for its members. We have seen corporates carrying out such programs, but this is the first time that a film body has initiated such an activity for its members, and I am glad it is a great success. Health camps are essential and I laud and appreciate CINTAA’s step”.

Om Puri, President CINTAA, added, “We actors need our health to be in perfect shape and in our busy schedules, we tend to miss it most of the times. Actors are professionals and the security of their future lies in their own hands. No one provides pension, or health benefits to an actor in his youth or in his old age. It is his own responsibility. So we need to routine heath checkups and secure it now itself. These camps are free and a normal health check-up may come for Rs 10,000 or above. Here, it is at no cost”.

CINTAA has also tied up with Seven Eleven Hospital, Mira Road and pre-booked one free bed for the treatment of any health issues by its members for a year round with highly discounted medical charges. Efforts are on to tie-up with more such hospitals.

“There are many actors in our industry who are NOT highly paid and this is mainly for them. This is our first step towards keeping our members healthy and we also look forward towards other Mumbai-based hospitals to come forward and help us in our effort providing us with beds and treatments at a subsidised rate”, said Manoj Joshi, Vice President, CINTAA.

Adding to it, Sushant Singh, General Secretary, CINTAA, said, “AIl I would say, this check-up is not just for our members. It is as essential for the health of CINTAA, for we would like to be an organization that is abuzz with activities for our member welfare.”