By Anant Nevatia | President
It has indeed been overwhelming to receive funds that have allowed us to set up and operate ten primary health care centres (7 Rural Clinics and 5 Urban Clinics) in across five districts of West Bengal, India reaching out to over 1.2 million people. Each centre runs four departments namely General Medicine, Optometry, Dentistry and Homoeopathy. At the cost of INR 60 ($ 1), patients are provided diagnosis and free medicine for seven days. The centres also provide free spectacles to those in need. Beside this, each primary health care centre, in collaboration with other organizations, facilitates free cataract and cleft lip/palate surgeries for those in need.
The task at hand is huge and our intention over the last few years, has been to spread out and serve as many people as we can, by establishing more such healthcare centres. The need in the current times is to scale up our existing operations to other districts of the state. In order to operate and set up new centres, we require constant funding. The funds would be used for purchasing medical equipment, hiring medical as well as support staff, staff at the Head Office, setting up infrastructure at the clinics, purchasing medicines etc.
Since the Government run medical facilities are sparse in these rural areas , news of patients benefitting from the treatment received at our clinic spreads to the neighbouring villages , resulting in constant increase of footfall of patients at our clinics. We therefore feel the need to reach out to more such areas addressing the needs of more patients.
The following is the feedback of a patient who is benefitted from our services.
Namazuddin, a contract labourer lives in a village close to our Sundia centre. He was struggling with gastro-intestinal infection and was in a poor condition. He needed medical attention . One of his co-worker and friend recommended RHCF’s Primary Health Care Centre located at Sundia. He was accompanied by his wife and his son to our centre. When he first visited our centre , he was suffering from severe dehydration coupled with loose motion and vomiting tendencies. The General Medicine doctor treated him with great care and after initial diagnosis , gave Nizamuddin, free week long medication with the requisite dosages. He was also advised to visit the centre on a regular interval.
The next time, Nizamuddin visited our centre, he showed considerable improvement. He came to the centre all by himself and appeared much more steady than his previous visit. His bowel movement was under control and the vomiting tendencies were gone. He was only going through periodic spasms in his lower intestine. The doctor after thorough check up changed his medication and told him to visit again after 3 days. He was reacting well to the medicine. In his subsequent visits to the centre he showed remarkable improvement and was declared fit to resume work.
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By Anant Nevatia | President
By Anant Nevatia | President
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