Provide Healthcare to 40,000 Rural Indian Women

Provision of Healthcare to 30,000 Rural Indian Women in 18 villages of Santalpur Taluka, Patan, Gujarat

In the quarter of October 2018 to December 2018, we have organized 100% camps as per the scheduled camps. The number of female patients treated at MMU has almost remained consistent i.e. 79.4%, 77% and 75.5% respectively. An average 64.8% of the patients treated at MMU are below the Poverty Line in this quarter. The number of patients being referred in each of the month varied reasonably in this quarter. Medications were prescribed to almost 100% of the patients going by the MMU. We have distributed 213 Sanitary Napkins in last quarter.

4 trainings were conducted for the health workers on the following topics:

Government health schemes: The health workers were given extensive training regarding all the current government health schemes in Gujarat. They were given detailed information about each and every health scheme along with their name, eligible beneficiaries and cash or cashless benefits. They have also given a test regarding the same in order to know how much they understood.

Government schemes for adolescent:In this meeting health workers were made aware about all the government schemes for adolescent health of boys and girls. They were made understand the same through visual aid as it is easy to grab and understand.

Young child & critical newborn care:The training was conducted over risky pregnancy and young infant and newborn care. This was a very interactive session as health workers gave demo on how to take care of a critical newborn and risky mother. They were also told about gestational diabetes and related effects over newborn.

Menstrual hygiene: The health workers were trained to create more awareness regarding use of sanitary napkins among adolescent girls, its uses, and benefits on health and hygiene on self. They were asked to mobilize more and more village girls towards use of sanitary napkins.

Figure 1: Training to Health Workers (attached)

World diabetes day: 14^th November 2018

World Diabetes Day is the world’s largest diabetes awareness campaign reaching a global audience of over 1 billion people in more than 160 countries.It is a global campaign created by International Diabetes Federation to draw the attention to issues of paramount importance to the diabetes. This day is celebrated internationally on 14^th November each year.

The campaign was centered on promoting affordable and equitable access for men, women and children at risk or living with Diabetes to medicines, diagnostic and treatment technologies and self management knowledge for ensuring a healthy and productive life. The key messages of the campaign were following:

-          All women with diabetes require affordable and equitable access to care and education to better manage their diabetes and improve their health outcomes.

-          Old age people require improved access to screening, care and education to achieve positive health outcomes.

-          School children were the key agents in the adoption of healthy lifestyles to improve the health and wellbeing of future generations.

The World Diabetes Day-2018 celebration at Ashray was also designed keeping in mind the above theme. On 14^th November 2018, we organized a lecture on “Causes and Effects of Diabetes” and a Diabetes screening camp for men and women of Zandala village, Santalpur Taluka. The activities were conducted in the premises of Zandala Government School.

Following activities were done as a part of the celebration:

-          We arranged for a movie screening in which all the health workers and school children along with school staff and principal were present.

-          Conducted an hour long lecture on “Causes and Effects of Diabetes” highlighting symptoms and signs of Diabetes, early detection of Diabetes and Gestational Diabetes Mellitus, prevention of type-2 Diabetes and nutritional care.

-          Organized Diabetes screening camp for villagers in which physical examination and Random Blood Sugar (RBS) test was done by a team lady medical officer and nurses. A total of 120 people attended the camp and RBS was checked for 81 people. 

Figure 2: Glimpses of world diabetes day celebration in Zandala village (attached)

 Awareness Activities

A total of 5 rallies were organized in Dabhi, Parsund, Daldi, Gadha and Kolivada for creating awareness regarding health and hygiene activities in the village. A total of 888 students participated in the rallies. A cleanliness drive was conducted in the village of Kolivada in which 150 students participated.

Figure 3: Glimpses of Rallies and Cleanliness drive (attached)