{"id":268,"date":"2020-03-28T19:49:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T14:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theant.org\/en\/?page_id=268"},"modified":"2020-04-24T00:45:13","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T19:15:13","slug":"community-health","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/theant.org\/en\/what-we-do\/ants-other-initiatives\/community-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Health"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Decades of conflict has collapsed government health services and it is yet to recover and be effective.<\/p>\n

Initially, we tried to bridge the treatment gaps and had different projects for giving medical services in the community. A Glimpse of our Earlier health interventions<\/p>\n

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  1. Village Pharmacists & Health Workers<\/strong>:\"Village<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Village women selected by the village were trained to handle 30 generic medicines with which they could cure a hundred different illness. This programme was a huge relief to far-flung villages with no access\u00a0to affordable medicines for minor disorders. At its peak, collectively these women saw over 8000 patients at an average cost of Rs.5 a patient!<\/p>\n

    Number of women health workers\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2013 47<\/p>\n

    Number of patients treated per month\u00a0 \u2013 200<\/p>\n

    Average Cost\/ patient\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2013 Rs. 5<\/p>\n

    Village health workers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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    2. Community Blood Testing Labs<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

    This initiative is a testimony of our health expertise that also generated skilled employment to youth. The youth selected by the community were trained as \u2018Lab Technicians\u2019 and ran low cost blood testing lab, as a part of a malaria testing-cum-treatment programme. The \u2018lab technicians\u2019 collected over 5000 slides in a year and the National Institute of Malaria Research Centre (NIMR) in New Delhi was so impressed that they sent a team to study our over 96% correct identification of malaria parasites by our technicians.<\/p>\n

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    3. Health Diary<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

    This was\u00a0the ant\u2019s<\/em>\u00a0small yet mighty effective tool to put health back in people\u2019s hands \u2013 where it rightly belongs. With illustrated information on most common illness including how to treat it, our health diary even today (long after its use as a diary!) is a prized possession for many individuals who use it to treat themselves, their families and also to advice and treat small illnesses in the community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Decades of conflict has collapsed government health services and it is yet to recover and be effective. Initially, we tried to bridge the treatment gaps and had different projects for giving medical services in the community. A Glimpse of our Earlier health interventions Village Pharmacists & Health Workers: Village women selected by the village were…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":39,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"class_list":["post-268","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theant.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theant.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theant.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theant.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theant.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theant.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/268\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theant.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theant.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}