NMDC SUPPORTED COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT PANNA DISTRICT, M.P.
NEEDS FOR PROJECT:
Farmers are the back-bone of Indian economy still a good number of them are poor and live in economically backward condition. In addition they are continuously under severe mental stress due to uncertainty of weather, less crop production, conventional loans and many other social activities. Due to tremendous social and economic pressure, the farmers occasionally take extreme steps, which totally spoil their family structure and future prospects. There is urgent need for designing and building program to counsel, motivate and guide for relief in mental stress. There is requirement of preventive health check up for these farmers so that they are free from slow growing diereses which, in longer span of time, create a heavy burden on their economic conditions. They should also be made aware of various schemes and provision for their developments. These steps will finally help them to come out of stress and step forward to a happier, healthy and prosperous life.
We started a medical camp, blood donation and health worker training activity on 18 june 2020 with the suggestion of the local NMDC team from the district collector.
Due to covid-19 situation and lockdown many villagers could not access healthcare for themselves and their family members. In m p bus services till recently were closed. The immediate attention to address the healthcare needs are required and the medical camps by vss team have experienced the urgent need and so we decided to increase the frequency of medical camps so that patients in remote rural areas could get their complaints attended. Our team mainly focuses on villages which are located in interior area and have not proper excess of local transportation.
The outcome and one of the advantages of medical camps has been the presence of nmdc community development project centers got acknowledged and patients who had attended medical camps started visiting for themselves and also recommending other villagers who could not attend medical camps previously to visit the nearby centers for their health needs.
With the aim of convergence with government health schemes and capacity building initiative for government health workers we could contribute hugely towards these government initiated schemes by accommodating their transportation, training and timely reach to the needy and identified cases.
Most of the l1 centers (brijpur, paharikheda, deori-ranwaha and gahada) l2 centers (chc devendra-nagar and chc amanganj) and farmers assistance desk center (khd gunnour) became operational by 23 october 2020.
130 average total daily OPDs (department visits outside patients) are registered. And at the same time we have organized more than 20 medical camps in various project intervention villages. The total population screening at the end of mar'21 is more than 20,000. Health records of all these patients are available on the digital health platform.
With this, the launch of smart healthy village web domain. (mobile app for digital patient health record) we have launched the domain www.smarthealthvillage.com and all population health screening data is available on the domain. Patient health record entries are taking place online at all l1 and l2 centers. We have also launched a mobile app for online patient data entry. With all this we can always analyze the data of patient health records according to gender, age and diseases.
Our team had programmed and converged with government health plans. Apart from the villagers visiting l1 and l2 centers, we organized and participated in special screening days like VHND (village health nutrition day) day, we collaborated with panna district health department to reach areas in our project intervention villages has ensured regular vaccination of children and ANC checkups of pregnant women in hard (cmho).
Meetings are regularly held monthly with adolescent girls for training on their SRHR (sexual reproductive health rights) and life skills. In addition, we distribute sanitary pads through their network. Mobility officers travel regularly to look after the cases of malnourished children and identify health camps as well as VHND with Asha and anganwadi workers.