KRWCDS
Rural Health Checkup For Children
KRWCDS conducted health checkup camps in the remote villages of Karwar district. We provided them with healthcare facilities which were not feasible to them. We along with government health officials went into these tribal villages and provided them the basic healthcare facilities.
Improving the Lives of the Underserved In Rural Areas
At KRWCDS, we understand and believe that early detection and treatment can curb the spread of a disease and lead the underprivileged sections of the society towards healthy living. Hence, KRWCDS started this project to bring primary healthcare services to the rural areas. The primary aim of this project is to attend to the health of women and children residing in the rural areas, and provide a wide range of preventive, promotive and curative healthcare services at their doorstep.
To serve the purpose, regular heath programs are conducted with a team of medical experts and community mobilizers which includes all the facilities to provide medical consultation, diagnosis and lab testing services to the beneficiaries along with free distribution of medicines. Street plays, health talks and other IEC activities are conducted to sensitise rural people on the essence of nutrition and general hygiene. Pregnant women, being the ‘high-risk’ group, are given special counselling antenatal and postnatal care, immunization, breastfeeding and family planning. Referral services are also provided to connect the underserved communities with the government.
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Project Highlights
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This project will benefit women and children from rural areas.
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Regular programs are conducted every month to offer medical consultation, diagnosis, lab testing, and medicine distribution services.
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Many activities and health programmes are organised on topics like Personal Hygiene, Nutrition and Family Planning to encourage health-seeking behaviour in women and children.
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Awareness sessions are conducted to educate women on pregnancy and newborn care related issues like ANC/PNC, immunization and breastfeeding.
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Referral services provided to patients in need of institutional care.
Community centered sustainable Health through local community Health workers
Since 1986 onwards the Health issues have been one of the major issues of the local interior villages of Karwar and Joida Taluks. Through women organizations, local active women had been selected, trained, consolidated, monitored and sustained through manifold health trainings and herbal medicines locally available in the forest. These 58 CHW’s had built a networking with the local Anganwadi teachers, ANM’s and other govt. Health departments. Through participatory process, the above personnels had complemented one another one another by sharing herbal medicines, local health cases management referral cases etc. This localized networking had brought about good benefits to these villages especially rural and forest tribal women and children. Government health programmes had been made accessible to the people. CHWs have become sustainable by the support of govt. health programmes. Local women organizations, through herbal medicines and other services of CHWs to the people around 8000 families from 106 villages had benefitted through health intervention through these following programmes, mal nutritions cases, anti natal and post natal cases. Early detection of Disability, HIV, TB cases, reproductive tract infections, sexual transmitted diseases, monkey fever etc. These CHWs had trained to take care of delivery cases during the emergency.
Some of Our Activities Under Health Project
Medicines Distributions
Krwcds under its health project conducts medicine distribution activities in regular intervals. KRWCDS along with the help of health officials, provide medicals camps in the remote areas of Karwar districts to provide them with better health care facilities.
Nutritional Food To Under Weight Children
One of the main activities KRWCDS performs is the distribution of nutritional food to underweight children. At KRWCDS we think, Better nutrition leads to better health, especially for children. We conduct this activity in many of the rural areas of Karwar District.
Special Care To HIV affected Children
At KRWCDS special programs are conducted for the HIV affected children. Regular awareness programs are conducted on HIV - AIDS. Nutritional supplements are also distributed to the HIV infected children & women. KRWCDS envisions a world where children and families can live free of HIV infection and in which families that are affected by HIV and AIDS can live positively and productively without stigma and discrimination.