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Seva Mandir’s activities in the
area of health focus on preventive, promotive and curative
health needs.
The activities of the health programme
are planned under areas of preventive, promotive and curative
health needs. Core activities across these programmes include
creating awareness, providing critical care through village
functionaries and two referral centres, capacity building
of community level health service providers, and linking
people to state facilities.
Through its health programme Seva Mandir hopes to
do the following:
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Reduction
in the incidence of major health problems |
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Improve maternal and child health |
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Conducting
and engaging in need-based research and advocacy. Seva
Mandir has an ongoing partnership with Poverty Action Lab,
MIT, USA |
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The health programme
has two points of focus: intensify its effort to address
maternal and child health; and strengthen its work on specific
diseases which include HIV-AIDS and other STDs, tuberculosis,
malaria, and water-borne diseases. The critical components
of the health programme are:
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A
cadre of trained village functionaries (this includes skill
upgradation of existing village functionaries).
Seva Mandir trains and oversees the activity
of village-level health workers providing primary health care
and creating awareness among the community. These workers include
362 trained Traditional Birth Attendants and 237 Parivar Sathis
(Co-motivators).
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creating
awareness and providing health care through a network of village
functionaries and the two referral centres.
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linking
people to State facilities .
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undertaking
ongoing research to evolve the health programme in keeping
with the needs of the community.
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