The World Health Organization, the United Nations body that sets standards and provides global surveillance of disease, defines health as: "A state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity."
Our overall objective is to achieve a balanced public health profile.
Conducted free health camps and reached out to 3000 people from the slum.
Brief Overview of the Health Camps
No. of Camps conducted: 15
No. of Patients Per Camp: 160
Amount spent on Medicines every week: Rs. 1800
List of doctors who attend:
- Dr. Naveen
- Dr. Arun
- Dr. Shushma
- Dr. Bala Shrinivas
- Dr. Sudheer
- Dr. Venkat
- Dr. Kishore
- Dr. Shailender
- Dr. Sharad
List of Para medical staff
- Prashant
- Ramakanth
- Satya Ramya
Special camps conducted:
- Pediatric (2)
- Gynaec (1)
- Eye camp (1)
Notes:
- The camps were conducted on Sundays between August 1st and 30th October, 2006.
- The number of patients per week is an average of four weeks.
- Some patients are repeat patients, while a large number are new to every camp.
- Doctors attend on a rotational basis. We had 2-3 doctors for every camp.
- Para Medical staff are medical students.
Completed a comprehensive preventive health plan for implementation at Rasoolpura.
The preventive health plan aims to build on a platform of maternal and child health utilizing a life cycle approach. The initial approach will be a family centric approach with a focus on mothers, adolescents, and children. Initiatives will aim at prevention of ill health and diseases, as well as initiatives aimed at improving the quality of life of people. These initiatives will include, but are not limited to, general measures as well as disease specific measures, health behavioral measures, and environmental measures.
Establishing a Wellness Center at Rasoolpura with focus on mothers and children below five.
The wellness center will develop as a training, service delivery and resource center.
The scope of services will include health education and capacity building of community workers for ante and post natal care focused on pregnant women, mothers and mothers to be, training of mothers with children on normal developmental milestones of children, general care of children and stimulatory play that is useful for child development, adolescent health including life skills, sexual health and psychological support services, individual and family centric psychology services for pregnant women focused on stress, anxiety and parenthood, community based rehabilitation services for differently-abled children, and training to provide first aid services within the slums. A referral network of existing secondary and tertiary care centers will be developed for service delivery.
The wellness center will encourage and focus on incorporating holistic systems of medicine like ayurveda, naturopathy and yoga into its programs.
