The major developmental concern is health. Health produces wealth. Based on this principle it has taken several health programmes. Health is one of the neglected facts in our society and especially in the remote areas it is too meager. Women were most neglected section of the family and they have to perform both productive and reproductive work at the family level.
HEALTH CAMPS :
Conducted several health camps for women and children. In these health camps not only screening by the qualified medical officers but free medicines also distributed. As the people are living too far to the health services and due to poor economic conditions also making far for them of the sound health services.
EYE CAMPS :
As elder persons facing from cataract problems and unable to go to hospitals and making surgery for the same due to economic problems and eventually loosing the eye sight in the very early stage. To prevent this problem eye camp was conducted through C.B.M. hospital, Vuyyuru which is well reputed having 100 years of experience and after screening the patients referred for surgery and after that the same were got operated and now their eye sight was visible.
DENTAL CAMPS :
Dental camp was also conducted for children as in the child hood many of the children suffer from the dental problems and due to lack of awareness affecting from infections. To create more awareness on the dental problems dental camp was organized and free brush and paste was also distributed.
ANTENATAL CARE :
Through health educators antenatal care was observing from conceiving to till safe delivery of the child. Promotion of institutional deliveries is major concern to reduce the child mortality.
HEALTH EDUCATION MEETINGS :
As health is a major concern for KISES focused more attention and activities on the health related issues. Health education messages is passing in the community through its health educators by way of
- Home visits
- Community meetings
Health Education Meetings Mainly on :
- Low cost nutrition
- Improved sanitation
- Birth spacing
- Various infectional diseases and its treatment and prevention
- Malnutrition children
- Early child care
- STI/RTI and HIV/ AIDS
- Family planning
- Reduction of early child marriages
HEALTH INTERVENTION :
Childhood Nutrition: Due to lack of nutritious food in the child hood and affecting for the anemia and Vitamin A deficiency. To curb this problem creating more awareness among the parents and growth monitoring is observing conducting every month. During the growth monitoring the parents are been explained their children growth in the charts and suggesting to make additional nutritious food if they fall under malnutrition. By constant effort of this process the malnutrition children were reduced and increased awareness among the parents also.
CARE & SUPPORT FOR PREGNENT & LACTATING WOMEN :
Antenatal Care :
Through health educators antenatal care was observing from conceiving to till safe delivery of the child. Promotion of institutional deliveries is major concern to reduce the child mortality.
Postnatal Care :
After the delivery till completion of 6 weeks postnatal care is providing to all lactating mothers through home visits. In this process explaining personal hygiene, wrapping of the child, giving colostrums and not to bath to the child till completion of minimum 3 days and immunization are the vital components.
Immunisation for Children :
Immunisation is very essential to the child to avoid from the diseases like Polio, DPT, Hepatitis – B, Measles and Vitamin A to be given in appropriate time implementing the same personally as well as mingling with other stake holders like ICDS staff and health staff of ANM and AASHA worker etc in the UIP days.
Growth Monitoring :
The children are weighing every month and explaining their growth to the parents and counseling them if they are fall under grade and suggesting to providing nutrition and bringing the child into normal grade. The main objective of this programme is to reduce the malnutrition child in the operational villages.
Birth Registration :
Due to lack of awareness in the villages no one is registering their children names in the concerned panchayats, eventually loosing many of the Government schemes and not only that Birth registration certificate is Right to the citizen. Birth registrations have been increased through conducting awareness meetings in the community. Total 102 certificates were issued through KISES in Machilipatnam mandal to all the ages of children in 10 villages. Though there is fees to be paid to the Municipality for registration of the name in the municipal records and issuance of the certificate Rs. 10/- and 50/- respectively but by negotiating with the municipal officials and exempted the entire fees.
Child Marriages :
In the villages child marriages are more rampant due to more superstitious. Child marriages were reducing through awareness campaigns and explaining the evil consequences of the early/child marriages.
Reproductive Health services- Prevention of STI/RTI, HIV/AIDS :
HIV/AIDS is a major challenge for the health promotion interventions. To prevent this problem the most vulnerable of STI/RTI are been referring for the hospitals for treatment. Conducting awareness meetings on HIV/AIDS and also counseling though home visits to the needy persons.
Personal Hygiene & Practices :
Personal hygiene is very vital in the health issues. More infectional diseases are causing due to lack of personal hygiene and practices. Though medical care is provided for the diseases it is need to identify the prevention methods. Personal hygiene is one of the prevention methods of any infectional diseases. Through home visits the importance of the personal hygiene was explaining and changing the practices of the people.
STRETEGIES :
- House visits
- Community Meetings
- Referral services
THE CHANGES WE BROUGH IN THE COMMUNITY WITH OUR INTERVENTION :
- Accessing 100% children for immunization in our target area.
- Increased awareness among the parents on birth registration.
- Increased institutional deliveries in the community.
- Increased exclusive breastfeeding.
- Benefited the health services from health camps by both women and children on various camps.
- People accessed with usage of toilets.
- Increased the awareness on personal hygiene practices.
TO BE IMPROVED INTERVENTIONS :
Health Center :
KISES does not confine to mere conducting the health education meetings and camps but indeed the services should have to reach to the community. There is no primary health center with in the radius of 30 K.M (only PHC is at Guduru) and people are suffering for the health services. It can be useful to near by 20-25 villages covering of near by 27,000 people can avail this services by running perpetually.
Now the center was running for providing the first Aid and to run the center continuously one trained ANM was appointed and she is available to the people during the day time. The future plan for the health center is to run the center in perpetually. Sincere efforts are being made and continuously doing for sustainability of the health center and mobilizing the resources like collection of free sample medicines, conducting health camps, mobilization of individual donors (on the memory of their kith and kins) for conducting health camps etc.
Doctors are willing to render their services at free of cost as we have infrastructure
| Health camps |
No.of camps organised |
No.of people availed services |
Free medicines distributed |
Nutrition distributed |
| Women health camps |
4 |
324 |
To all patients |
To all patients |
| Children health camps |
4 |
432 |
To all patients |
To all patients |
| Eye camp (Mobilised camp) |
1 |
102 |
To all patients |
Free surgery was made to eligible patients. |
| Dental check up |
1 |
75 |
To all patients |
Free brush and paste distributed to all the children. |
| General check up |
1 |
26 |
To all patients |
No nutrition distributed |
| Total |
11 |
959 |
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