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Saath's Community Health Programme aims at
providing preventive health care and also targets slum specific health
concerns. The various components of CHP are:
Integrated Child Development Scheme
(ICDS) / Anganwadis
Saath started the ICDS program in 2004.The
ICDS scheme provides education to children of the age group of 3-5 years
and nutritional support to children of the age group of 0-5 years,
lactating mothers and pregnant women.
Through the ICDS program implemented by us there has been an
attempt to bring about change in the program itself and create a model
which can be replicated by others. Currently we are undertaking a
research study on the ICDS with the primary objective of improving /
strengthening the quality of pre school education component in ICDS
Saath operates 191 Anganwadis in 22 wards of
Ahmedabad
Activities conducted in ICDS
The
following services are provided to children and pregnant and nursing
mother's
Ø Non formal pre
school activities
Ø Immunization for
children and pregnant mothers
Ø Supplementary
nutrition for children 0 to 6
years
Ø Supplementary
nutrition for pregnant and lactating mothers
Ø Growth monitoring
and health check ups every 6
months
Ø Forming
parents/mothers group
Ø Detailed survey of
200 houses where center is located
Ø Monitoring and
Record keeping
Reproductive
Child Health (RCH)
Saath has
commenced in January
2005 the
Reproductive Child Health (RCH) project in Vasna and Paldi wards, a
project of the WHO that has been sanctioned to Saath by the AMC.
Under this project, the selected link workers are responsible for
conducting home visits for their assigned households, create awareness on
various health related issues and problems, identify people with health
problems, network and arrange for their necessary treatment and complete
follow up. The various health problems that are being addressed are
malaria, TB, HIV/AIDS, immunization, ante natal care, family planning and
leprosy
Activities
conducted in RCH
Ø Daily Household visits by the link workers
Ø Registration of pregnant women, to provide
them ANC and PNC, identify mothers with danger signs of pregnancy and
refer them for proper care
Ø Distribution of vitamin A, Iron and Folic
Acid tablets
Ø Implementation of any National Health
Program: TB control program, Malaria control program
Ø To provide medical support for
pneumonia, diarrhoea-vomiting and
fever cases
Ø Notification and control of contagious
diseases
Ø Immunization awareness and camps
Ø Surveillance of 0 to 1 years child death and
the reasons, maternal death and the reasons
Ø Creating awareness to stop Home Deliveries
Jeevan
Daan Child Survival Programme (JDCSP)
Saath had initiated the Jeevan Daan Child
Survival Programme in the mid of 2004, networking with Counterpart
International and Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) in 10 wards,
aimed to reduce infant mortality and morbidity focusing its efforts on
five key technical interventions that are the major causes for infant
mortality namely
Ø
Pneumonia
Case Management
Ø
Control
of Diarrhoeal Diseases
Ø
Nutrition/Breast
Feeding
Ø
Expanded
program on immunization
Ø
Maternal
and Newborn Care
Community Participation for Sustainability
Community mobilization has been the moving force at
the grassroots level, for the success of the program through the
formation of Community Health Teams (CHT).The program has created a cadre
of 647 volunteer women from the communities in 10 wards of Ahmedabad who
have become the spearheads of the community making way for positive
change in health.
Communication medium
The program adopts various mediums of communication
for all the interventions like Health Education Sessions, Household
visits, puppet shows, street plays, campaigns, stalls, rally’s,
celebration of Breast Feeding Week and Nutrition Week etc. Besides this we work closely with the
link workers and Anganwadi’s of the area to attain the targets and be in
direct contact with the community.
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