EHA

The Prerana Project refers to the overall initiative of the Christian Hospital Chhatarpur to improve the health and living conditions of communities covering a population of 37, 123 people distributed in 33 villages.

Tele-clinic Project
This being the 3rd phase of the project, capacity building and training of Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHAs), Auxillary Nurse Midwives (ANM)and Anganwadi Workers (AWW) and building stronger linkages with them and establishment of community monitoring system in 15 villages, have been accomplished. The project trained 12 ANMs, 14 ASHAs and 25 AWWs of the project villages on RCH, vector borne diseases, water borne diseases and other diseases prevalent in the area.

Due to the project providing ambulance service to people living in villages 24*7, 93 patients were transported to the Hospital out of which 68 were women in labour. The rate of institutional delivery has increase to more than 70 per cent.

Primary Health Care
This has been provided by 15 health workers through 15 health centres with 20 essential medicines in medicine kits. The tele-clinic centres manned by tele-health workers treat people for basic illnesses; contact the main Hospital in case of medical emergency or to request for ambulance. A visiting nurse conducts bimonthly clinics providing treatment for illnesses and ANC.

School Health Program:
Under this program 4663 students were taught about common illnesses, good personal hygiene and the importance of sanitation. The project team developed an attractive curriculum (a book on Primary Health Care Education for Schools), trained 26 teachers of 10 middle Schools on the same and distributed them to 816 students. Health education was given in villages on locally relevant diseases. Special IEC campaigns with puppet shows and rallies were conducted on health day and health melas.

Medical Assistance Programme (MAP)
MAP continues to operate a micro-health insurance programme. Last year 76 families with 388 members enrolled in MAP. Out of this 125 availed treatment in the Hospital and 421 persons at the Tele-clinic centres.

Community Mobilization and Empowerment
This has been done by forming 15 Village Health and Development Committees. These have been trained in record keeping and accounting to enhance skills of VHDC. The Tele-health workers’ monthly stipend and Funds for IEC programmes etc have been credited to the 15 VHDC bank accounts. The payments are made by the respective VHDC leaders.

Women’s Development Project

During the year 471 women in 36 SHGs have been strengthened in many ways. This year their credit base has been increased by Rs. 4,58,420.00. Members of the SHGs are currently actively participating in village governance as women Sarpanch in Panchayat meetings and in other forums. They are also familiar with banks, postal services and other such agencies. 24 adolescent groups with 308 members were formed and educated on reproductive and sexual health.

Water and Sanitation
Five community animators sensitised and built awareness in the communities regarding diseases that spread as a result of contaminated water and poor hygiene. Rallies and campaigns on safe drinking water were conducted in 3 villages. These were also discussed in the village health and development committees. Apart from promotion of soak pits and construction of wash platforms, the project facilitated the repair of five open wells and constructed four community bath rooms to promote personal hygiene and sanitation among women.