OUR COMMUNITY HEALTH ACTIVITIES

Besides excellent academic activities we are on the forefront of lot of community Health activities. We have a vision that medical care should reach to the poorest of poor by community involvement and capacity building for delivery of family based interventions. We have already done 560 camps.

(a) Annual Cancer Detection Camps for cervix and breast
is our Annual feature, which is must awaited by public. One of the most remarkable improvements in women’s health care is in the primary and secondary prevention of cervical carcinoma. The incidence and mortality from cervical cancer has not decreased at all. In India where cytologic screening is not widely available, cervical cancer remains very common.
Primary prevention is now available thanks to new ante-cancer vaccines using a          virus-like particle produced from the L1 gene of the HPV Cervarix, Gardasil. Beautiful part is that committed all gynaecologists do it as joint exercise in 30 -60 clinics and Hospital in East Delhi,Vaishali.

Details:

• 7th December,02- Sixty two sites
• 7,8th December, 03 Twenty Six sites (2 day).
• 18th July, 04 three sites for gynaecologists. Lady Doctors East Delhi, Ghaziabad  
  and Noida availed this opportunity
• 7th December, 05 – thirty six sites
• 7th December, 06 – forty six sites 
• 7th December, 07 – thirty five sites
• 7th December 08, -thirty sites

This joint exercise by gynaecologists at multiple sites to promote yearly checkup is unique in itself in India and we wish to extend in South Delhi and West Delhi.

(B) Movement Against Anaemia (MAA)

Rampant anaemia in women and children is a black spot for India and lately associated as biggest cause of school dropouts. It is also the 3rd largest cause of women and girls mortality and morbidity. Though over 800 anaemia detection and awareness camps, we have screened over 1, 200, 000 girls, children and women in Delhi Postpartum unit of GTB hospital and now MCD are helping us with iron folic acid tablets. Consistent plan of action serial monitoring over a period of one year and community involvement is doing wonders! Not only anaemia incidence improved, there is improvement in school grades and stamina of girls

We hold 6- 10 workshop of aneamia awerness & HB detection & counseling  every month.

Delhi Gynae Forum volunteers need congratulation to help MCD in training doctors and Teachers to boost their effort to decrease incidence of a Anaemia in MCD schools.

We hold 6-10 workshop of anaemia awareness of HB detection & counseling every month

(c) “Help Yourself Workshops Bone Mineral Density Screening and Obesity Workshop (436)

for awareness in all health fronts of women have been done touching over 60, 000 women of middle income group above 35 years.

(d) MA – Beti Workshops (42)

have been done in slums and poor areas of Delhi with support of Seva Bharti, Vatsalya women, Children and Adolescent Development, Yuva Marwari Survey, Women Tera Panthis Jain forum and AIWC). By interactive sessions, they are sensitized about health issues of each other, gender bias and deprivation of girls in nutrition, education and health care. Special appeal is made not to marry girls before 18 years (preferably after 20 years) and help in improving status of girls through formal education and making them economically independent by teaching them some vocational skills.

(e) Talks on “Menopausal Problems” (Over 30)

(f) Talks on “Cancer Awareness among Women” (27)

Now WOW India volunteers are active to do. ”Help Yourself Workshops” where BMD screening, Anaemia camps, obesity camps are done and Gynaecologists sort out their common gynaecological problems. specially to crossing menstrual problem, menopausal problem, cancer awerness & new Cx preventing vaccine.

(g) Sensitization workshops on Female Foeticide and gender bias (246) have been our focus to create public awareness.

In last gynae 13 rallies have been taken out so far with help of Vatsalya vocational training centre and Yuva Marwari Samaj in East Delhi and Central Delhi.

(h) Adolescent Health Workshops (over 700) :
Adolescent Health had our thrust area. Our volunteers travel across the country to train Doctors on Adolescent Health Workshop. Our reach has been to medical colleges, nursing schools, BEd and NTT schools, Delhi colleges, Public schools, MCD schools, Mahila Ashrams, Vocational institutes and centers, various resident welfare society’s organized meeting and non formal groups of adolescent girls and boys meetings. Safe Sex Education is the need of the hour for every adolescent girl.

(I) “Life Skill Workshops”
is altering teenage behavior are very popular. Now we do Teachers Training Programme and train WOW India volunteers and they carry out, Life Skill Workshop among teenagers.

(j) TOT Workshops

1. TOT workshop on “Training Methodology for Doctors” (2003, 2004, 2005, 2006,2007) were with help of Expert Group of Adolescent Health, WHO and UNICEF
2. TOT workshops on Adolescent Health for –
   (a). Doctors NGOs
   (b). Teachers of all Lovely Public Schools (2003, 2004, 2006)
   (c). Teachers of all DAV Schools in Mausam Vihar (2004, 2006)
   (d) Volunteer of Rotary clubs

(K) Partnership with JSk and PSI to promote IUCD and Medical Abortion has started and now we wish to organize camps and help in demand generation by public