By Shahid Qadri | Chief Operating Officer
Rashidabad is a city built by Rashid Welfare Organization (RWO) situated on the Hyderabad-Mirpurkhas Road near Tando Allahyar, over 86 acres of land. The project started on 13th December 1998 with an aim to alleviate poverty and spread education in that area.
During the screening of 649 individuals working in Rashidabad it came to be known that 64 people were Hepatitis C positive, 12 people positive for Hepatitis B and 4 had both B and C. The tests were done by strip test.
The figure comes out to be 10.14% people positive for Hepatitis C and 1.8 % people positive for Hepatitis B.
RWO approached The Health Foundation with the above figures and wants THF to operate from Rashidabad catering to the Hepatitis B/C patients of target villages.
There are other organizations operating in Rashidabad such as TCF School, LRBT, Shahnaz Ghani Hospital. Fatmid Foundation, Infaq Foundation e.t.c. All the organizations work independently with only social interaction at all levels, with each other and RWO.
Project: Hepatitis Free Community Project, Rashidabad
Target population: 36,000
Socio-economic status: lower income group.
I. Project Overview
The Health Foundations with this project would be taking a step up the ladder towards its goal in making a significant difference in decreasing the prevalence of Hepatitis B/C. It envisions a community-based intervention, linked to a Hepatitis centre at Rashidabad. This centre will carry out this mission for a preselected population, through its well run and established programs, integrated at one point, linking up the community and the services of the THF Hepatitis Centre. The beneficiaries in this case would be the community of villages in UC where Rashidabad project exists
II. Purpose
We have established a successful Community based Hepatitis Free Community Model in high prevalent area of Tando Allahyar where the population has access to free treatment, screening, and immunization against Hepatitis B. Vision of THF is to eliminate Hepatitis from High prevalent areas of Tando Allahyar
iv. Objective
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