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Indian Army provides medical, veterinary aid to migrating Gujjars & Bakarwals

To support people from remote areas of Poonch, Rajouri and Reasi, the Indian Army organised Medical and Veterinary camp for Gujjars and Bakarwals during their Dera migration.

A defence spokesman said on Monday that a total of approximately 700 residents availed the benefit of free medical treatment and approximately 290 cattle and domestic animals were benefitted from Veterinary camp.

The Medical and Veterinary camp was organised mainly with an aim to attend to the people, cattle and domestic animals reared by Gujjar and Bakarwal community.

Generally, these migratory families and their livestock face lot of problems during migration. This camp greatly helped these needy Gujjars and Bakarwals to prepare for their migration.