SUKARYASUKARYA BEHTAR SWASTHYA BEHTAR SWASTHYA

BEHTAR SAMAJBEHTAR SAMAJ

Sukarya

● Non-profitable and non-governmental organization based in Gurgaon,Haryana.● Established in 1999● Aim of providing better health services to the poor and needy.● Vision is to unleash people's energy and self awareness for a better and healthier society.● Run by volunteers driven by a spiritual and emotional commitment to help those in need of succor and salvation.

VISIONOur vision is achieving sound health for the poorest section of the society, especially women, adolescents and children by not just providing access to health care but empowering them to create a healthy society through promotion of efficacious and affordable methods of disease prevention. We seek to empower particularly the women and children for 'Behtar Swasthya Behtar Samaj'

Our Objectives

● To advocate, encourage and guide positive 'health-seeking behavior' with special emphasis on mental and spiritual health. ● To improve maternal and child health through training, awareness campaigns, workshops, and health related education. ● To advocate, promote and sensitize communities on Primary Health Care, Reproductive Child Health and Community Health issues. ●To empower women by strengthening their physical, mental and emotional well-being and economic security. ● To initiate and implement social and community development activities in the field of healthcare, income generation for women as well as education for the weaker sections of society. ● To provide humanitarian assistance in areas affected by natural calamities such as cyclones, earthquakes and floods.

OUR TEAM

The team of Sukarya includes volunteers, professionals, consultants, doctors and the working staff.

S. No. Name Designation

1. Ms. Meera Satpathy Chairperson

2. Ms. Kumkum Bhatia Trustee

3. Ms. Shipra Shukla Co-ordinator Public Relation and Networking

4. Mr. D. S. Kataria Co-ordinator Mobile Diagnostic clinic project

5. Mr. Asit Tarkhad Co-ordinator Health Centres & Physiotherapy unit

6 Ms. Pushpa Indernath Project Co-ordinator Spice Making Project

7. Ms. Renu Sood Co-ordinator Saath Saath Project

8. Mr. Naresh Wadhawan Core Volunteer

9. Ms. Varsha Tarkhad Core Volunteer

10. Ms. Madhu Kataria Core Volunteer

The list of volunteers is as follows:

Advisory CommitteeMr. C.B. Satpathy, Retd. DGOI police ,Working as advisor corporate strategy and security

Mr. S.K. Kain, I.P.S., Retd. DG Police, Worked as special commissioner WIP services, Delhi, Member, PGC Delhi

Dr. Aasha Kapur Mehta, Professor Economics in IIPA, lecturer since 1975,Delhi University, Reader in IIPA 1997- PRESENT

Dr. Suraj Kumar, National Programme Officer, UNDP, India Country Office, Delhi.

Sukarya initiated its activities in 1999 by conducting various Health Camps, Health Melas and Free Medical Services including free distribution of medicines in various slums of Delhi and Gurgaon with the help of expert team of doctors. Subsequently Sukarya has been implementing Income Generation and Life Skills Projects in Gurgaon and covering JJ slum clusters in DLF Phase-V and villages of Kanhei, Wazirabad, Ghata, Tighra and Shamaspur.

PROJECTS AND ACTIVITIES

● GRASSROOTS INTERVENTION

● PERI URBAN INTERVENTION

GRASSROOTS INTERVENTIONA.Reduction in the prevalence of Anemia –

an important factor of maternal mortality

and morbidity

B. Improving Reach and Access of RCH and FP

services with Quality of Care

C. Men as Partners in Improving the

health Status of the Rural Communities

D. Promoting Rural Health by Health

Promotion

Camps

E. Better health through Community

based health

centre

F. Women empowerment by

strengthening self help

group and micro enterprise

development

The project reaches a population of 30000 in 10 villages of Gurgaon district in Haryana. The project was initiated in May, 2006, aims to reduce the “Prevalence of Iron Deficiency Anaemia” among adolescent girls, pregnant women and lactating mothers. The project is supported by Population Foundation Of India, New Delhi. This project finished in July 2009.

The end line survey of the project was done by a third party and Sukarya was successful in reducing the prevalence of Anaemia by 65%

Achievements till now•Till September, 2009, the project has reached out to 1674

pregnant women, 2087 lactating and 2979 adolescents.

•The project has educated and brought awareness on anemia,

nutrition, safe motherhood, safe delivery and post natal care to

10000 women and their families.

•2176 pregnant, lactating and adolescents have undergone

hemoglobin tests by Sahli’s method.

•2439 pregnant, lactating and adolescents has been provided with

iron folic acid tablets

•1255 adolescents has been de wormed from the project on a

regular basis

•757 lactating women has been de wormed from the project

•2047 pregnant and lactating women has been counseled by doctor

and nutritionist during the anemia camps

•297 pregnant and lactating women have bought and are using iron

pans on a regular basis.

•605 families are using double fortified salt on a regular basis

•419 serious anemic cases (pregnant and lactating) has been

referred and treated in the project.

•Liasioning with the health department on a regular basis for better

coordination and utilization of the local level health services like

regular availability of IFA Tablets from the PHC, availing the

services

of the government ANM and availing the facility of delivery huts.

This project is a direct implementation project by Population Foundation Of India with active partnership of Sukarya. The project is of 3 years period and covers a population of 50,000 which includes 27 villages of Nuh and Tauro Block of Mewat District. The goal of the project is to improve the reproductive and child health and family planning status in Mewat.

Major activities till now•A baseline survey has been conducted by an external

organization to

understand the health status prevailing in the area in the

month of

June, July and August.

•The project reaches to a population of 29000 in 13 villages of

Tauro

Block of Mewat District.

•13 male health groups have been formed and are functioning

•2336 females and 2228 males have visited the camps and

have been benefited

•Diagnostic test like X-ray, ECG , blood and urine test has been

conducted for 400 people

Achievements

◄ A total of 18 camps were held in which total 651 men and 738 women were benefited from the camps.

◄ Improvement in the health seeking behavior was observed in the community. The people took their initiative to attend the camps, complete the course of medicines and follow up with the doctors.

◄ More number of people from the community was aware about the government services and was benefiting from the service.

◄ More number of women were going for their pre natal check ups and taking the TT injections.

◄ More number of women were opting for institutional deliveries

◄ The community became more cognizant about nutritive diet

◄ The elderly people, including both the women and men were benefited by the inputs by the physiotherapist, who regularly took the physiotherapy treatments for their joint and arthritis problems

Achievements till now

•More than 3500 household from the village benefited from the services of the

Health Centre like health check ups, provision of quality and effective

medicines, counseling by the doctor and the medicine in charge and time to

time follow up by the project staff.

•3000 patients have received the treatment during the last two years including

995 women and 746 children. Patients are benefited by the mobile health

clinic services.

•More than 70% of the patients paid the user friendly fees of Rs.10 in the health

centre.

•Counseling and one to one interaction has been conducted with at least 50 %

of the patients visiting the clinic. One to one counseling on health has lead to

improvement in the levels of personnel hygiene amongst people in the

community.

•Increase in the awareness level regarding good health, nutrition, safe drinking

water, sanitation, immunization and pregnancy care.

•Increased heath seeking behavior in the community. Patients started visiting

the health centre and the government dispensaries for primary health care

services.

•The women from the community were particularly satisfied with the visit of 2

lady doctors twice in a month in the health centre. This opportunity gave them

ample scope to discuss their health problems freely with them.

PERI URBAN INTERVENTIONSA.Reaching to the urban slums by Sukarya

Sehat Centre

B.Health check-up of students in schools

run by other NGOs

C. Saraswati Kunj Slums

D.Physiotherapy Unit – An alternative

Treatment

E.Women's Income Generation Group -

Spice Making Project

Sukarya Sehat Centre was inaugurated in 2005 in Sukarya’s premises at Sushant lok. Since then, the Sehat Centre has been doing exemplary work and is well known for its service to poor and needy people. A general practitioner is available 3 days a week between 10:30-1:30.

MAJOR ACTIVITIES

A general practitioner regularly attends to children (5 -15 years) from a non- formal education centre called Sankalp based in slums of DLF phase V, Gurgaon.

On Saturdays, the doctor of the health centre goes to the Saksham School, Sushant Lok for a check-up of all the 120 students and teachers of the school.

Sukarya provides health check up facilities and counseling to all the HUMANA People to People India non-formal schools running in Gurgaon. These schools are running in Chakarpur, Jharsa, Sector 39, Basai Road. Sukarya provides health facilities to approximately 700 students of various HUMANA schools.

Sukarya is providing health check up facilities to 300 students in a school adopted by ICF (India Citizen Forum) in Nathupur.

Saraswati Kunj Slums has a total of 640 juggis with a population of 6040. Sukarya is providing basic health care facilities to Saraswati Kunj slums through a sehat centre. Counseling sessions are also done on a regular basis. A health card is maintained for each family.

ActivitiesFormation of men and women Health Groups one men and one women group in the village (Swasthya Samuh)Capacity building of health groupsDevelopment of IEC materials and wall writingsHealth education sessions in health groups Health education sessions in schoolsIndividual and group counseling sessionsOrganizing Health camps and Diagnostic Health camps, and visits of specialist doctors Networking and linkages with government health institutions like PHC, sub centers, delivery huts, CHCs, government hospitalNetworking and linkages with charitable and private clinicsStrengthening the referring system

General Health camps will focus on: Health Check up by doctorFree distribution of medicinesClose follow up of patientsHealth education sessions Diagnostic Health Camps will focus on: Free consultancy and check ups by doctorsFree distribution of medicines by well trained medicine dispensers Lab test facilities like the blood, stool, urine, ECG and X- Ray has been provided by the mobile clinic for the community. Free haemoglobin check up for all women in the camp was held to understand the anemia status in the villagesHealth education to women, school children and men on nutrition, personal health and hygiene, community sanitation, safe deliveries and immunization by talk shows, documentary films, leaflets and pamphlet distribution in the community was held.Referring serious patients to government hospital Counseling sessions of serious patients were conducted on a regular basis.

In the last two years, 1630

patients has been benefited by

the physiotherapy treatment

Sukarya has been supported by the following corporates:

● Godfrey Phillips India Ltd ● Incentive Destinations, Gurgaon ● Amadeus, Delhi ● Bird Group, Delhi ● RDM, Gurgaon ● BPCL Mumbai ● Gujrat Ambuja Cement Ltd., Delhi ● Hughes Systique, Gurgaon ● Maruti Udyog Limited, Gurgaon ● TATA, Mumbai ● IDFC Management Company, Mumbai ● Kusmunda Coal Transport Pvt. Ltd., Delhi

Sukarya has been supported by the

following funding organizations:

● Population Foundation of India

● Charities Aid Foundation, India

● Concern India Foundation

● Give India

Sukarya has worked with the following organizations:

● National Institute of Public Cooperation and Child Development

(NIPCCD) New Delhi

● Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) of Government

of India

● Mamta Health Institute for Mother and Child, New Delhi

● South Delhi Medical Association

● Delhi Psychiatric Society

● Escorts Heart Care Centre

● Sir Ganga Ram Heart Care Centre

● Banarsidas Chandiwala Institute of Medical Sciences Centre for

Diabeted and Life

Style Diseases

● Chetana, New Delhi,

● Prayatana, NGO New Delhi