EHA

Prem Jyoti has been working among the Malto tribals of Jharkhand since December 1996. It focuses mainly on their health needs, through a network of community health volunteers, peripheral clinics and a hospital. Emphasis is given on training and empowering the community to tackle health problems. The Prem Jyothi project was started as a unique partnership between three major Indian mission agencies: the FMPB, EFICOR and EHA. The service priorities of the hospital are fighting endemic diseases like Malaria and Kala Azar through health awareness and medical care through the primary health centres, immunization, reproductive and child health, mini health centers, and training community volunteers.

YEAR 2010
Major Highlights:

• An MoU was signed with the government for the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme to function  as a Designated Microscopy Centre.
• Another MoU was signed with Catholic Relief Services allowing patients suffering from kala-azar to be treated free of charge.
• To help tackle malaria in the area, the hospital facilitated the spraying of DDT in 112 villages.
• Health education, especially about TB and Antenatal checks, is provided in wards by the staff.
• Work on a comprehensive manual for the training of community health volunteers in the Malto language was begun.
• Deliveries are being subsidised for poor patients. Also, rates for poor Maltos as well as non-Maltos are subsidised.