Community health Programme in Sundarban

Immunisation Programme is one of the key interventions for protection of children from life threatening but preventable diseases. Because of poverty related issues, immunisation of children gets distracted as most of the people in the community are from marginalised background. Hence, such a programme has been initiated in the Rural Hospital of SabujSangha. The inhabitants who are catered belong to two blocks namely Patharpratima and Mathurapur II, South 24 Parganas, West Bengal, India and lack proper medical facilities as the areas are remote and isolated. The infant mortality rate is high in these areas due to malnutrition and improper immunization.

Laboni, wife of Rabindranath of Lakshmijanardanpur village of GP Lakshmijanardanpur, gave birth to her first child through a normal delivery. Her newborn female child is 2kgs 250gms of weight. She is a healthy child. She had her first immunisation injection of vitamin-K (K-Nat 0.5) after one hour of the delivery. 

Sabuj Sangha’s RHTC is situated in GP Nandakumarpur, South 24Parganas, West Bengal where underprivileged and downtrodden people from the Blocks of Patharpratima and Mathurapur II visit for the treatment and are advised accordingly by the expert general physicians, gynaecologists, optometrists, orthopaedics etc. Information about the OPD days, time and doctor’s availability, system of service delivery etc. are circulated by the health workers and supervisors during home visits and public communication materials are also used for disseminating health messages in the communities. Patients attend RHTC for diagnosis and treatment of ailments as well as pregnant & lactating mother care. RHTC works as a wonder in peoples’ life since they get such services 24 X 7 and therefore in emergencies too. Last year (April 2015 - March 2016), total number of 5269 patients received OPD service from RHTC, as per records.

Surojit, a 9 yrs old lad and son of Swapan, an inhabitant of Mahabatnagar of GP Nandakumarpur, belongs to asocio-economically marginalized family as his father is a daily labourer, for which there is unstable financial condition. He was brought to RHTC by the local health worker of Sabuj Sangha to avail the advice of specialised Orthopedic at OPD. His family was highly content to get a proper treatment for Surojit from a certified doctor against such a less registration fee. Surojit says, “I am feeling better now. Doctor advised me to visit again, to open the plaster after one month and take medicine on a regular basis.”