COMMUNITY HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT
The Community Health and Development department of Kachhwa Christian hospital is headed by Dr. George Varghese. The community health team of the hospital plays a very significant role in reaching out to every nook and corner of the villages, in creating awareness identifying those with various needs for their daily sustenance, providing available services at the home of the poor and thus uplifting them and caring for them.
We follow a model called H.E.E.L which includes Health, Empowerment, Education and Livelihood.
HEALTH
Palliative Care:
This service aims at rendering palliative care by addressing the physical, psychosocial, emotional and spiritual needs of the affected patients while managing their life limiting illness. The care is holistic and includes the family of the patients as well. Our palliative care staff visit the homes of the patients, do dressing of wounds, counselling, training, pain management etc. It is the first of its kind in this region of Uttar Pradesh. Many families have been blessed through this service.
We also have a four bedded palliative care ward for patients who need short duration of admission.
Tuberculosis Project: (SAFAL)
Project Rihayi aims at screening the three most common preventable cancers, oral, breast and cervical cancers. It also involves tobacco de-addiction program. With lack of information compounded by lot of misinformation in the villages only when the cancer is in an advanced stage do they seek appropriate medical treatment. Often being misled the patient ends up spending a lot of money with no considerable improvement to their condition.
The project aims at screening for the disease and early intervention and help with the treatment in specialized centers. Tobacco deaddiction and surgeries for oral cancer in the early stages is offered at the hospital.
Preventive Oncology:
Project Rihayi aims at screening the three most common preventable cancers, oral, breast and cervical cancers. It also involves tobacco de-addiction program. With lack of information compounded by lot of misinformation in the villages only when the cancer is in an advanced stage do they seek appropriate medical treatment. Often being misled the patient ends up spending a lot of money with no considerable improvement to their condition.
The project aims at screening for the disease and early intervention and help with the treatment in specialized centers. Tobacco deaddiction and surgeries for oral cancer in the early stages is offered at the hospital.
Disability Care:
In a context where any form of disability is often seen as a curse, this project aims at main streaming the disabled through appropriate intervention. Our disability work has resulted in obtaining disability certificates, equipment including wheelchair and crutches. Advocacy with the local government is an important part of this work. This is also part of our community-based rehabilitation project.
Children with various disability are identified in the community and along with intervention in the community they are also brought for physical therapy to our well-equipped physical therapy unit.
EMPOWERMENT
Womens’
Empowerment Project:
The Project aims at empowering women to be able to position themselves in strategic decision-making processes that take place at varying levels of social, economic and political contexts in the region. This is done by promoting women participation through capacity building and skills training, in order for them to be independent and to increase their ability to manage finances, thus enabling them to provide food for their family, educate children and afford better health care.
The focus is also on reducing poverty and attaining improved standards of living, advancing gender equality and ensuring elimination of all kinds of violence against women and children.
Adolescent Groups:
Often in a village setting the adolescent children do not have any one to guide them or watch out for them. Many our led astray by media, undesirable habits, some fall into depression and do not do well in studies. Through the Naee Disha (New Direction) curriculum, groups of adolescents are given life skill counselling and teaching. This is a means of impacting the community and ensuring positive influence at a crucial age.
EDUCATION
Project Unnathi:
Through this project we aim to develop the physical, cognitive, emotional and social transformation in underprivileged children by providing them opportunities for quality education.
This is done through our child development center where we have children from the age group of 3 yrs to 5 yrs who are given pre-primary education along with food and medical care.
Project Prem:
Project Prem is geared towards helping children pursue English education with fee sponsorship and evening coaching at the child development center.
The children come to the center after school and they are helped with homework and studies. They are also given a nutritious snack.
LIVELIHOOD
Veterinary Project:
Most of the households in these parts have some form of livestock or the other. Many families are dependent on milk from either cows or buffaloes. This project aims to render care to keep the cattle healthy, reproducing and yielding in order to increase the livelihood opportunities of the marginalized communities in this area. This is done through periodic deworming of the livestock by our community health staff in their homes.
Phaldayi:
Phaldayi is a partnership project where re-usable sanitary pads (Didi pads) are made for women in the community. This project envisions good menstrual hygiene, cost saving for women and environment friendly use of resources. This project has employed women who are economically weak who stitch and pack the pads.
