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Health Water and Sanitation
The significance
of health in the overall sustainable development can be looked at
and understood in many ways. The most important is individual's
capacity and then a community's capacity to transform physical and
mental well-being into economic productivity, growth and sustainable
development. However, achieving this is not simple. Many causal
factors affect people's health and hence the process of sustainable
development. PIPHRO's Health Sector has embarked upon the mission to
highlight and work on issues related to children's and women's
health, environment, and health care that play a significant role in
affecting people's socio economic life. PIPHRO has firm belief that
only healthy and educated communities can contribute to the
development and uplift of societies.
The salient objectives of the program include:
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Make people
aware of health issues through health education packages
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Provide
primary health care services in areas having no health facility
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Decrease MMR
and IMR through safe reproductive health care
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Prepare
village volunteers as paramedical force
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Information
dissemination through published material and leaflets
The Health and Hygiene Program is advanced through following tools:
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Health Awareness and Capacity Building
One of the
major objectives of the Health Sector is to educate the community
on personal / community hygiene matters and preventive healthcare
measures. Health education is a process through which people learn
causes and effects of relationship between variables and health
and well being. Access to information on how communicable /
contagious and water born diseases are spread and the knowledge
about how to prevent this happening leading to gradual
modifications of habits and bring about attitudinal change in
human behaviour towards a better and healthy life. Health
education also provides information on better utilization of
scarce resources. Imparting awareness and capacity building are
accomplished through following tools.
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Participatory health dialogues
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Trainings of
Community Volunteers, TBAs and Health Committee Members
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Coordination
with Line Departments
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School
Health and Awareness Program
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Seminar, and
workshops
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Information
dissemination through printed material and audio visual AIDs
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Health
Services
Along with
health and hygiene awareness and building capacity of communities,
it is essential that they should have an easy access to necessary
health services. PIPHRO, in this context, provides them with the
following services through establishing community health centers
at cluster and village level. Medical camps are also organized to
provide immediate relief. The Community Health Centers provide
medical services, including diagnosis of diseases through
pathological tests, medicines and consultancy etc. At these
centres, especial focus is laid on mothers in reproductive age.
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Immunization Campaign
To safeguard
communities, especially women and children, against the infectious
and fatal diseases, various immunization vaccines are give to
them. These include TT Vaccine, Polio Vaccine and Hepatitis B & C
Vaccines etc.
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Referral to
Secondary and tertiary health facility
The medico
cases which cannot be dealt with at CHCs are referred to Taluka
and District Hospitals for proper treatment, cure and medication.
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Family Planning Program
Under this
program, the communities especially mothers are educated in the
negative impact of rapid growing population and that of more than
two (02) children on an average family and the health of mother
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