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Department of Community Health
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Introduction
The VHS Department of Community Health (Institute of Community Health) comprises 5 Mini Health Centres (MHCs) located along the OMR and ECR. The Mini Health Centres conduct activities such as:[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][info_list_father][info_list_son width=”15″ height=”15″ titleclr=”#000000″ connector_h=”20″ listwidth=”0″ image_id=”2077″]Clinical services[/info_list_son][info_list_son width=”15″ height=”15″ titleclr=”#000000″ connector_h=”20″ listwidth=”0″ image_id=”2077″]Community health outreach including daily house visits, medical camps, field clinics, school health visits, community group interactions and nutrition demonstrations.[/info_list_son][info_list_son width=”15″ height=”15″ titleclr=”#000000″ connector_h=”20″ listwidth=”0″ image_id=”2077″]Community health training for medical, nursing, nutrition, pharmacy and other paramedical students as per the University syllabus.[/info_list_son][info_list_son width=”15″ height=”15″ titleclr=”#000000″ connector_h=”20″ listwidth=”0″ image_id=”2077″]Operational research studies on community health issues.[/info_list_son][/info_list_father][vc_column_text]Clinical and community health outreach is done through 10 Mini Health Centres which are located in the southern periphery of Chennai city mostly located on the ECR and OMR arterial roads. The catchment area of the Mini Health Centres covers a population of nearly one lakh for clinical services and approximately half are covered with regular outreach such as daily house visits. The Community Health outreach services are offered under the eight core activities such as Water, Sanitation, Women health, Child health, Nutrition, Communicable diseases, Non-Communicable diseases and Clinical practice. Other activities such as Nutrition Demonstration, Group health Education, Provision of Weaning Mix and School health visit are done on a regular basis.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_btn title=”VHS is a recipient of the ‘Father Tong Memorial Institution’ award from the Voluntary Health Association of India (VHAI) for outstanding and pioneering contributions in the field of community health and development.” style=”3d” color=”sky” size=”lg” align=”center”][vc_empty_space][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-arrow-right” add_icon=”true” title=”Objectives” tab_id=”1563272612925-a9729fba-8e94″][vc_empty_space height=”20px”][vc_column_text]
Objectives
[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][info_list_father][info_list_son width=”15″ height=”15″ titleclr=”#000000″ connector_h=”20″ listwidth=”” image_id=”2077″]Provide preventive, promotive and curative health care to rural and underserved populatio[/info_list_son][info_list_son width=”15″ height=”15″ titleclr=”#000000″ connector_h=”20″ listwidth=”” image_id=”2077″]Conduct training programs for doctors, interns, nurses, paramedics and health workers[/info_list_son][info_list_son width=”15″ height=”15″ titleclr=”#000000″ connector_h=”20″ listwidth=”” image_id=”2077″]Offer field exposure placements at mini health centres to medical, nursing and nutrition students[/info_list_son][info_list_son width=”15″ height=”15″ titleclr=”#000000″ connector_h=”20″ listwidth=”” image_id=”2077″]Undertake epidemiological, clinical and socio-economic research studies[/info_list_son][/info_list_father][vc_empty_space height=”20px”][vc_column_text]
Approach
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Levels of Intervention
[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”20px”][info_list_father][info_list_son width=”15″ height=”15″ titleclr=”#000000″ connector_h=”20″ listwidth=”” image_id=”2077″]Basic clinical care[/info_list_son][info_list_son width=”15″ height=”15″ titleclr=”#000000″ connector_h=”20″ listwidth=”” image_id=”2077″]Community outreach[/info_list_son][info_list_son width=”15″ height=”15″ titleclr=”#000000″ connector_h=”20″ listwidth=”” image_id=”2077″]Training programs[/info_list_son][info_list_son width=”15″ height=”15″ titleclr=”#000000″ connector_h=”20″ listwidth=”” image_id=”2077″]Research studies[/info_list_son][/info_list_father][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text]
Community Health Model
[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”20px”][info_list_father][info_list_son width=”15″ height=”15″ titleclr=”#000000″ connector_h=”20″ listwidth=”” image_id=”2077″]VHS currently manages 10 Mini Health Centers offering basic clinical care and outreach services to one lakh beneficiaries living in southern peripheral communities of Chennai.[/info_list_son][info_list_son width=”15″ height=”15″ titleclr=”#000000″ connector_h=”20″ listwidth=”” image_id=”2077″]Mini Health Centers networked with central tertiary care hospital providing preventive, promotive, curative and rehabilitative care covering major specialties and super specialties[/info_list_son][info_list_son width=”15″ height=”15″ titleclr=”#000000″ connector_h=”20″ listwidth=”” image_id=”2077″]Mini Health Centres staffed by two trained Multi-Purpose Health Workers, backed by periodic visits by Medical Officer and Public Health Nurse[/info_list_son][info_list_son width=”15″ height=”15″ titleclr=”#000000″ connector_h=”20″ listwidth=”” image_id=”2077″]Mini Health Centers serve patients based on clinical needs rather than their ability to pay and work towards health promotion and disease prevention[/info_list_son][info_list_son width=”15″ height=”15″ titleclr=”#000000″ connector_h=”20″ listwidth=”” image_id=”2077″]Mini Health Centers improve access to primary health care services for poor and underserved population through trained community based health workers[/info_list_son][/info_list_father][vc_empty_space][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-arrow-right” add_icon=”true” title=”Field work” tab_id=”1563521028492-56c7d06a-1a2c”][vc_empty_space height=”20px”][vc_column_text]
Field work
[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”20px”][vc_column_text]The Multipurpose health workers make daily home visit as per the Fixed Tour Programme (FTP) in order to cover the entire population for every two months under each Mini Health Centre. This outreach provides basic clinical care, preventive and promotive services by medical officers along with multipurpose health workers and trainees posted at the Dept of Community Health. Cases that require specialized care are referred to the main hospital at Adyar.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]
Training
[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”20px”][vc_column_text]Training is undertaken at the Institute of Community Health at Thuraipakkam and practical postings at various mini health Centres. Trainees include CRRI posting, MD Community Medicine, M.Sc Nursing, B.Sc Nursing, Diploma in Nursing, Post Basic B.Sc Nursing and other streams such as nutrition, pharmacy etc. Non-formal training is based on request from various organisations such as Rotary Clubs, NGOs etc and is tailor made to requirements. For the reporting period a total of 333 students were trained in 84 batches.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-arrow-right” add_icon=”true” title=”Camps” tab_id=”1563521174650-d3856e67-d7e7″][vc_empty_space height=”20px”][vc_column_text]
Camps
[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”20px”][vc_column_text]Free medical camps are periodically conducted by VHS Mini Health Centres so that health care services reach the poor and underprivileged communities living in slums, resettlement tenements and along canal banks. Medical camps fulfil unmet health care needs of people having poor health seeking behaviours. Free medical camps organized by VHS extend quality medical care services, free medicines and health education to the needy and underserved populations living in peripheral areas surrounding Chennai.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”15px”][vc_row_inner equal_height=”yes” gap=”10″ css=”.vc_custom_1563521703192{background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”1416″ img_size=”600*800″ alignment=”center”][/vc_single_image][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”1417″ img_size=”580*700″ alignment=”center”][/vc_single_image][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”1418″ img_size=”580*700″ alignment=”center”][/vc_single_image][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”1420″ img_size=”580*700″ alignment=”center”][/vc_single_image][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_empty_space height=”20px”][vc_column_text]
Additional Director, Medical Officer, Public Health Nurse, Staff Nurses and Multi-Purpose Health Workers
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Medical Camps Conducted
[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”20px”][vc_column_text]VHS conducted three free medical camps for the benefit of communities living in and around Neelangarai (20th August 2017), Thuraipakkam (3rd September 2017) and Sithalapakkam (10th September 2017).
Each of the three free medical camps was sponsored by The Oriental Insurance Company Limited (a Government of India Undertaking) under its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”25px”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”1421″ img_size=”580*700″ alignment=”center”][/vc_single_image][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”1422″ img_size=”580*700″ alignment=”center”][/vc_single_image][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”1423″ img_size=”580*240″ alignment=”center”][/vc_single_image][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”1433″ img_size=”580*120″ alignment=”center”][/vc_single_image][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_empty_space height=”20px”][vc_column_text]
Inauguration of free Medical Camps by
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