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The story of success
Imparting health facilities to the remote villages with the help of Shri Baba
Haidakhan Charitable Hospital and Trust.
One of the major problems in the remote villages is the lack of basic health
facilities In various village and SHG meetings, the need of health camps at a
centralised location of a project cluster emerged out. The project tried its
best to solve this problem with the existing health departments. programs but due to
the unavailability of doctors and medicines, much success not met. Meanwhile,
contacts were made with Baba Haidakhan Charitable Hospital Trust at Chiliyanaula,
Ranikhet (Almora) and a ray of hope emerged to serve the poor and backward
project community. As the trust was working in selected pockets of Almora
district, it was a challenging task to convince the Management Board of Trust to
work outside the district in remote pockets with lack of basic infrastructure
like roads, but with the motivation and commitment of young and enthousiastic
doctors our dream came true and the district project team with the help of NGO's
and community successfully the organisation of 10 health camps in remote project
clusters in 2006 - 2007 - 2008. The process of successs can be summarized as:
- Contacts made with Haidakhan Trust and orientation of project to
Haidakhan Tea
- Detailed interaction with doctors of Haidakhan Trust and negotiations on
contribution by each sakeholder of the program
- After a series of talk with doctors and management, it was decided that
various stakehoulders like community, FNGO, Project (DMU) and
Haidakhan Trust will fully cooperate at its end to make the program
successful
- Community will contribute by providing necssary infrastructure like
table, chair, cot, mat, water and electricity facility, local fooding
arrangements and wide publicity of program atvillage level. Besides, every
patient will contribute Rs. 2 as registration fee and half cost of the
medicines.
- The FNGO were made responsibility for wide publicity of progam and
making necessary arrangements during the camp.
- The project through its DMU team contributed towards the cost of
communication material, boarding and lodging of medical team, fuel expenses
of the vehicules of trust. photo-videogra, documentation and transport
through DMU vehicle.
- The trust gave its full cooperation by providing an experienced dand
qualified medical team o f 10 persons (comprising of 4 doctors), medicines
at half cost (free for category I patients) and vehicule support with mobile
van.
- Identification of potential loctions for organisation of health camp. A
centralised loction of the cluster mainly a common place like school,
Panchayat ghar was selected with the consent of the community.
- Detailed action plan prepared in fortmhtly community DMU-FNGO meetings
and sharing of various responsibilities,
- During the camps four doctor's teams were developed i.e. Dental, Ee
related, Physician and women related and Ayurved related (due to
unavailability of lady doctor the related patients were covered by
Physicians,
- The health camps were organised in various batches and more than 2000
patients were treated during these camps. Medicines worh Rs. 78000 were
distributed to the patients and community contribution of > Rs. 32.00 was
collected by the trust
- Based on the geographial and poverty conditions, the doctors gave useful
suggestions to the patients regaring health management with available
resources and adoptin better health practics.
- After the camps, a feedback session was also organised with the FNGO
team where the doctors gave necessary tips and future guidelines based on
their experiences with the patients of the day..
- Folow up of these camps was also done by linking the identified cataract
patients with Advanced Eye Camp organised by trust at Haidakhan
Hospital at Chiliyanaula, Rhaniket. The DMU and FNGO team supported in
this endeavour by p roviding transport and handholding vacility and tith the
result, 7 cataract operations were successfully conducted.
This successful convergence program was appreciated by the community district
administration and the project management and in the future also such programs
are planned in the project area. To sustain the efforts of project, the
enthousiastic doctor's team had given the idea of Telemedicine, which can open
new aavenues in providing health facility to the doorstep of deprived rural
community. The project will make its best efforts to achieve the dream.
The project tried its best to solve this problem with the existing health
department programs but due to the unavailability of doctors and medicins, much
success not met. Meanwhile, contacts were made with Baba Haidakhan Charitable
Hospital Trust at Chiliyanaula, Ranikhet (Almora) and a ray of hope emerged to
serve the poor and backward project community.
As the trust was working in selected pockets of Almora district, it was a
challenging task to convince the Management Board of Trust to work outside the
district in reote pockets with lack of basic infrastructur like roads, buth with
the motivation and commitment of young and enthousiastic doctors our dream came
true and the district project team with the help o FNGOs and commmunity
successfully
Bhole Baba ki
Jai !!
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