Provide Healthcare to 40,000 Rural Indian Women

An awareness meeting on importance of Ante Natal Care was conducted in Korda village by our community health worker with pregnant women of the village. We conducted the meeting in the classroom of a local school. The school authorities look forward to the development of the village as a whole and so they agreed with providing us the space required for the meeting. Our health worker had started sensitizing these women about the meeting 20 days prior to the meeting.  On the said day, to much of our delight all the pregnant women in the village turned out for the meeting. The health worker, who is trained in counseling talked about the Ante Natal Checkups; their importance, details of services provided at the local health facilities and 4 golden keys of Ante Natal Care namely early registration at the health centre, going for minimum 3-4 antenatal checkups, taking 2 tetanus toxoid injections and consuming 100 iron folic acid tablets. Using audio-visual tools like Projector and Speakers, these women were shown short movies and videos on the these topics.  They were also taught to recognise danger signals which can occur during pregnancy; such as bleeding, high blood pressure, fever and others, upon which they should seek immediate medical assistance. 

Many of these women will be followed by our health worker throughout their pregnacy and post birth to ensure all the necessary care and support is given to them for a safe and happy motherhood.