kasturi & sons (the hindu) news paper industry 130 year old organisation 4 publications
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KASTURI & SONS (THE HINDU) News paper industry 130 year old organisation 4 publications Published at 12 places 3572 employees in total ; 1672 in Chennai Employee Health & Welfare Proactive management. MEDICAL TEAM. Guided by Dr.Nalini Krishnan M.D., - Director Supported by - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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KASTURI & SONS (THE HINDU)News paper industry
130 year old organisation
4 publications
Published at 12 places
3572 employees in total ; 1672 in Chennai
Employee Health & Welfare Proactive management
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MEDICAL TEAM
• Guided by Dr.Nalini Krishnan M.D., - Director
• Supported by
5 Medical officers
Clinical assistants
Medical Social Worker & Counsellor
Physiotherapists
Laboratory Staff
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• A comprehensive health care programme launched under the Arogyaraksha banner in 1997 for various curative and preventive medicine and health promotion programmes at worksite
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THE HINDU HEALTH & WELFARE CENTRE
• Established in 1994
• Located at the heart of Chennai
• On site emergency services at the press & corporate office also provided
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• Provides comprehensive health care services to
• Service employees & their families
• Retired employees & their spouse
THE HINDU HEALTH & WELFARE CENTRE
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HEALTH CARE SERVICES PROVIDED
• Outpatient medical consultation & treatment
• Specialists’ consultations - twice a week
• Diagnostic Lab Services & ECG
• Imaging services - X-ray, Ultra Sonogram & Echocardiogram
• Well equipped physiotherapy unit
• Counselling services for employees & families
• Pharmacy services – at no cost to patients
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COUNSELLING SERVICES
• Counselling of employees on work-place related inter-personal behavioural and emotional problems
• House visits for follow-up counselling
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COMMUNITY OUTREACH PROGRAMMES
• Awareness programmes on smoking and alcoholism conducted In schools and colleges Government and private corporations to mention a few
o Tamil Nadu steels - Arakonamo Brakes India – Padi, Chennaio Reserve bank of Indiao Hindustan motors
Tamil Nadu police – Nearly 80,000 police personnel have been covered through workshops conducted for alcohol deaddiction
Hospitals and deaddiction centres Rural villages at Chingleput,Salem and Madurai And wherever help is required
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OTHER HEALTH CARE ACTIVITIES
• The Hindu in 1996 in collaboration with ILO & an NGO, TTK Hospital participated in workshops and conducted programmes for prevention of alcohol and drug abuse at work place
• April 1998 : Policy against Substance Abuse formulated jointly by the Union & the Management
• Sponsoring for alcohol de-addiction treatment
• Also participated in the ARMADA (Association of Resource Managers Against Drug Abuse) & SOLVE programmes on management of Stress,Tobacco and Alcohol Addiction, HIV infection and Violence
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HEARING CONSERVATION PROGRAMME
• Carried out in May 2001
• Helped to reduce noise emission & keep it within safety limits
• Employees educated on the importance of using hearing protective equipment
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• Annual on-site health screening & master health check up done for employees of all branches
• Counselling on lifestyle modification done
• Well-Women Check-Up – Including Gynec examination, Mammogram & PAP Smear
• Screening of Food Handlers (canteen staff) for communicable diseases once in 6 months
• Typhoid and Hepatitis A vaccines administered
PREVENTIVE HEALTH CARE PROGRAMMES
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ABOUT THE AA GROUP
• AA Support Groups for patients & Al-Anon Family member support groups
• AA group meetings held at corporate office and at press (Maraimalainagar) once a week
• Senior members from other AA groups with long years of soberity invited to share their experience
• Al- Anon group meetings held at welfare centre
• 94 employees have come forward for treatment
• 70.7% of them remain sober still
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• Health promotional activities at work place include• Educative and awareness lectures on personal
hygiene, road safety, addiction, cancer, obesity,
hypertension, diabetes and other related diseases• Dissemination of information through
notices,posters,flyers • Messages on scrollers at canteen • Poster exhibition• Screening camps• In-house newsletter called Welfare Watch• Health Promotion Messages in pay packet • Participation in health fairs
OTHER HEALTH CARE ACTIVITIES
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SMOKING CESSATION PROGRAMME
• Initiated on 1st January, 1999
• Declared ‘No Smoking’ office on 1st January, 2000
• Conducted by Dr.Nalini Krishnan, Director, Dr.Mary Varman Chief Medical Officer & Ms.Malini Roberts, Medical Social Worker of The Hindu H & WC
• Technical Assistance by Ms. Thirumagal, Director of Counselling,T.T. Ranganathan Clinical Research Foundation, Chennai
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SMOKING CESSATION PROGRAMME – How achieved ?
• Phased withdrawal of smoking zones at the work spot
• Smoking zones reduced from 3 places in 1999 to ‘zero’ in 2000
• Counselling & Workshops on Smoking Cessation & Tips to quit smoking
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• Display of Anti –Smoking posters at strategic places in the work place
• Distribution of pamphlets on health hazards of smoking & financial loss due to smoking along with the monthly pay Cheque & at ‘QSP’ work shops
• Hand-outs distributed
SMOKING CESSATION PROGRAMME – How achieved ?
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• Based on Questionnaire survey 6 months after ‘QSP’
• 4% decline in the total number of smokers after 6 months of ‘QSP’
• Decrease in the numbers of cigarettes smoked
• Overwhelming response from the employees for ‘no smoking’ in work place (94%)
• Change of smoking location to outside office premises (67.6%)
SMOKING CESSATION PROGRAMME – Results
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• Stopping smoking during office hours (15%)
• Smoking only after work and outside premises (7%)
• Relapse of smoking was 26.4%
• Reasons for relapse - peer pressure & perception of stress & ‘tension’
SMOKING CESSATION PROGRAMME – Results
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‘A Cigar is a pipe with fire at one end and fool at the other’ - anonymous
‘Smoking Pays … … The tobacco company, The Hospital ,The undertaker’
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So ……
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