|
|
| Disaster Management > Aparajita Orissa |
| Aparajita Orissa |
Health and Development Project in Kalahandi district of Odisha
VHAI in partnership with the Government of Odisha and Medicin Du Monde, a French organization is implementing a health and development programme in Thuamul Rampur block of Kalahandi district.
This block is one of the most remote areas in the state and the district with a poor status
of health and development indicators.
Some of the major achievements over the last one year are as follows: |
 |
|
• The PHC at Adri, • handed over by the Government of Odisha in a public private partnership mode to VHAIAparajita is now fully operational,meeting the health needs of the local people. With VHAI intervention, now there is a full fledged medical team which is providing both preventive and curative health care to the community.
• A Preventive Health Care Unit has been set up to address health promotion aspects in the communities and the schools. This unit is headed by an AYUSH doctor and supported by the health volunteers towards improving the life style of the community members.
• There is an effort to strengthen the self help groups and as of now, 32 SHGs have started their small enterprises and are earning income to support their families.
• The ASHAs and ANMs (service providers at the community level) are regularly sensitized and accounted for their regular and efficient services.
• In collaboration with the National Vector-borne Disease Control programme, malaria control is being aggressively addressed.
• At the district level, partnerships have been developed for various health programmes. |
| |
Water purification |
Primary health care in emergency |
Handicraft artisans’ development |
|
| |
Tobacco Control:
The tobacco control programme of VHAI–Aparajita in Odisha state has expanded to various districts all over the state and has become one of the top priorities of the State Government.Many stakeholders such as government departments other than health and family welfare, civil society organizations,educational institutions and authorities and health institutions are now getting intensively involved in the tobacco control initiatives. Recently there are few decisions taken at the State Government level which confirm the anti tobacco stand of the state government to curb tobacco use among the people in the state. Some key achievements of the programme are as follows:
• Increase of tax (VAT) on all tobacco products from 13.5 to 25%. And introduction of 10% tax on Bidi which was not there at all.
• Odisha High Court has passed an order to stop the sale of tobacco products in the Omfed stalls (dairy products stall). Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) also issued notice to Omfed stalls to stop selling tobacco products.
• BMC has initiated action against illegal hoardings by tobacco companies on direct and indirect advertising.
• Government of Odisha assigned VHAI the responsibility to strengthen the National Tobacco Control programme in Cuttack and Khordha districts. The NTCP programme in these districts has been streamlined by regular steering committee meetings, sensitization of law enforcers, display of signage in public places, interventions in educational institutions, etc.
• Commissionerate Police in collaboration with VHAI-Aparajita has continued strengthening awareness and enforcement drive against tobacco use and is now extending this effort to Cuttack district in the state.
|
| |
Besides this, VHAI is implementing the PAT & APPLE programme in Cuttack and Khordha districts. The programme has been able to get the Jagatsinghpur district declared ‘smoke free.’ A compliance study organized by a social science institute VISWAS revealed that Jagatsinghpur district meets more than 90% of compliance of Smoke Free legislation.
At the State level an advocacy workshop, organized by VHAI-Aparajita in collaboration with the State Government, was attended by the District Collectors, Chief District Medical Officers and other administrative and health officials.
|
| |
|
|
|
| |
|
