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Mother and New Born Care / Reproductive and Child Health:

1) SURE START PROJECT:
Maternal and New Born Health Programme

Date of Starting:

June 2007

Area of Work:

Kondwa, Dais Plot, Indira Nagar, Sai Baba vasahat,Anna Bhau Shate Vashat, Taijai,Cahvan Nagar, Janata vasahat, Dandekar Bridge,Warje , Ramnagar.   Slums of Pune City

Beneficiaries:

Pregnant women, Lactating Mother ( upto 42 days )and New Born babies(upto 28 days).

Funding Agency:

PATH

Lead Agency  Project Concern International (PCI)

Objectives:

  1. To significantly increase individual, Household and community action that directly and indirectly improves Maternal and Newborn health.
  2. To enhance systems and institutional capabilities for sustained improvement in maternal and newborn care and health status.

 

Activities:

Menstrual Surveillance 
ANC Registration
ANC and PNC visit.
High Risk ANC , PNC and New Born Visit
Creation of MOMS committees and monthly meeting
Family visit
ANC Meeting
PNC interpersonal communication
SHG group meeting, Anganwadi Sevika Meeting.
CBO ( Mahila Mandal,Young Madal,Rickshaw driver and Ganesh Mandal )
 Promotion of all registration ANC for HIV testing
 Distribution of Congratulation letters to pregnant women and new born baby mother with specific health messages
Health competition quiz for pregnant women and mother in laws.  

Achivements:

 

 

 

Achieved Percentage

 

Jan 08 to Dec 08

Jan 09 to Dec 09

ANC registration before 12 week

84%

96.71%

4 Medical Check up of ANC

93%

100%

Institutional Deliveries 

90%

100%

Low birth weight babies

22.75%

8.89%

Networking and tie up with medical practitioners to provide fee medical checkup of pregnant women, distribution of IFA Tablets when tablets not available at PMC hospitals.

Conducted 3 health mela’s for ladies age group between 15 to 49 years for total health checkup HB checkups and health education and mass awareness activities regarding MNH

Involvement of Local Coorporators and MLA in MNH Activities

Extra Achievements
At the time of Swain flu epidemic of the Pune City , we have trained our MHN and other  staff on Swain Flu , printed hand bills on science information of swain flu . After the training programmed out all staff informed and educated slum community on swain flu for this they visited house – to house , conducted group and mass meetings .It helps to control the swain Flu epidemic.


2) Reproductive and Child Health Programme:

RCH (MNGO)
Date of Starting:

1998 to 2002 Phase 1

2003 to  2010 Phase -2

Area of work:

19 FNGOs in RCH –I
( 16 PHC and 3 urban Centre- 5 ,22,873 population of 224 villages from the 8 district of the Maharashtra strate by 19 FNGOs)
         &
8 FNGOs in RCH – II
( 2 PHC and 3 FNGO in Kolhahpur District – population – 39,832
(4 PHC and 5 FNGO in Solapur District – population - 65,481

Beneficiaries:

Male and female of reproductive age group and adolescent girls and boys.

Funding Agency:

Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Govt. of India
through State RCH Society

Objective:

  1. To establish and develop networking between PHC , Community and FNGOs
  2. To educate male and female of the reproductive age group regarding spacing ,family planning operation , importance of small  family , RTI , STI , AIDS , Consequences of early marriage of the girls , PNDT act and importance of males involvement in RCH.
  3. To educate adolescent reproductive age group  regarding adolescent reproductive health , life skill  ,RTI, STI, AIDS Nutrition , ANC , PNC and Immunization.

Innovations:

a. Sasu Pujan
b. Dohale Bhojan
c.  Congratulation letters to new born mothers and newly married couples
d.Kirtan on health
e.Use of traditional media
f. Health knowledge competition
g.Use of P.E for ARH education
h.Involvement of senior citizens
i.Establishment of ado. Boys and girls village health committee and their involvement in health promotion

Achievements:

Along with achieving targets in ANC / PNC & FP targets following major achievements were done: - 
             
a. SHGs and CBOs fully strengthened and actively involved in MCH & ARSH programme implementation and started demanding health services
b.  SHGs and CBOs started putting pressure on  health provider for provision of health services beside this they started putting pressure on MCH beneficiaries for taking health care.
c.  ARSH education project of significant size implemented in rural, tribal area & urban slums with peer educator strategy with establishment of 1592 adolescent girls groups and 1751 boys groups for ARSH education. Under this, 43021 girls  and 52891 boys
were educated in ARSH.
d.  Good No. of girls started refusing to marry before 18yrs of age.

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