Health

Daang Area of Karauli District has almost 40000 miners and 100000 Construction workers, working in various parts of cities in India. Miners and construction workers have various health-related mainly Silicosis and Silicotuberclosis. Government health services are not provided enough facilities for these miners and workers. SSD works for these underprivileged for their well-being and help.

ASHA TRAINING

For ensuring better health of the society and to aware people for being healthy SSD organized the Second Phase Asha Sahyogini training in Hindaun City from 13 to 16 July 2009. 29 Asha Sahyogini participated in that training and 33 Asha Sahyogini participated in the Second Phase of training held from 24 to 27 July 2009.

The First Phase of Asha Sahyogini training was organized from 2 to 6-sept-2009 in Hindaun City, 40 Asha Sahyogini participated in that training. In an extension of this, the Second Phase of training was organized from 8 to 12-sept-2009. 40 Asha Sahyogini benefited from the training. The Third Phase Asha Sahyogini training was organized from 24 to 28 Nov 2009 in Shri Mahaveer ji of Karauli district 19 Asha get benefited from the training.

Total Sanitation Campaign

Individual Health and hygiene are largely dependent on adequate availability of drinking water and proper sanitation. There is, therefore, a direct relationship between water, sanitation, and health. Consumption of unsafe drinking water, improper disposal of human excreta, improper environmental sanitation, and lack of personal and food hygiene have been major causes of many diseases in developing countries. India is no exception to this. Prevailing High Infant Mortality Rate is also largely attributed to poor sanitation. It was in this context that the Central Rural Sanitation Programme (CRSP) was launched in 1986 primarily with the objective of improving the quality of life of the rural people and also providing privacy and dignity to women.

The concept of sanitation was earlier limited to the disposal of human excreta by cesspools, open ditches, pit latrines, bucket systems, etc. Today it connotes a comprehensive concept, which includes liquid and solid waste disposal, food hygiene, and personal, domestic as well as environmental hygiene. Proper sanitation is important not only from the general health point of view but it has a vital role to play in our individual and social life too. Sanitation is one of the basic determinants of quality of life and the human development index. Good sanitary practices prevent contamination of water and soil and thereby prevent diseases. The concept of sanitation was, therefore, expanded to include personal hygiene, home sanitation, safe water, garbage disposal, excreta disposal, and wastewater disposal.

The strategy of SSD is to make the Programme 'community led' and ‘people centered’. A "demand-driven approach" was adopted with increased emphasis on awareness creation and demand generation for sanitary facilities in houses, and schools and for a cleaner environment. Alternate delivery mechanisms were adopted to meet the community's needs. Subsidy for individual household latrine units was replaced by the incentive to the poorest of the poor households. Rural School Sanitation is a major component and an entry point for wider acceptance of sanitation by rural people. Technology improvisations to meet the customer preferences and location-specific intensive IEC Campaign involving Panchayati Raj Institutions, Co-operatives, Women Groups, Self Help Groups, NGOs, etc. were also important components of the Strategy. The strategy addressed all sections of the rural population to bring about the relevant behavioral changes for improved sanitation and hygiene practices and meet their sanitary hardware requirements in an affordable and accessible manner by offering a wide range of technological choices.

The main objectives of the SSD under TSC were to bring about an improvement in the general quality of life in rural areas, accelerate sanitation coverage in rural areas to access to toilets to all by 2012, motivate communities and Panchayati Raj Institutions to promote sustainable sanitation facilities through awareness creation and health education. In rural areas, cover schools and anganwadis with sanitation facilities and promote hygiene education and sanitary habits among students, encourage cost-effective and appropriate technologies for ecologically safe and sustainable sanitation, and develop community-managed environmental sanitation systems focusing on solid & liquid waste management.

The start-up activities by SSD included conducting a preliminary survey to assess the status of sanitation and hygiene practices, people’s attitudes and demand for improved sanitation, etc. with the aim to prepare the District TSC project proposals for seeking Government of India assistance. The start-up activities also included conducting a Baseline Survey (BLS), preparation of a Project Implementation Plan (PIP), and initial orientation and training of key program managers at the district level. Under this SSD prepared 70 toilets in the Mamchari gram panchayat of the Karauli district.

Community-based Health Management System:

Most of these villages have no infrastructure like all-weather roads, electricity, etc. Therefore villagers have no option other than walking for 10-15 Km. to get treatment. Therefore SSD has endeavored to provide health services to villagers at their doorsteps through

     SSD’s mobile clinic services.

     Starting drug distribution centers managed by villages themselves.

     Organizing Health camps in villages.

SSD has been involved in improving health facilities among girls and pregnant women by creating awareness of health issues and by implementing health programs at regular intervals. Women now are aware of the importance of Vaccination and we have also seen drastic changes in child marriages after this program. Local people are happy after the implementation of these healthy activities.