Better health through community based health centre

Although the national health policy document stipulates universal access to primary health services, in a number of instances it still eludes communities in remote areas.  Bandhwari village located on the Gurgaon-Faridabad highway, 18 kms from Gurgaon with a population of about 5000 is one such village, where a health centre is being run since Jan, 2007 by Sukarya. The residents of this village, particularly those belonging to the socially underprivileged sections were entirely dependent on quacks to receive primary health care services in the absence of medical facility in the village. The closest govt. health centre is located 10 km away. The poor connectivity and virtually non-existent transportation makes accessibility to this centre very difficult. A few private facilities that do exist around the village are unaffordable to a majority of the households.

In order to provide the community with a viable option of accessible health care services a small health center is being run in partnership with the Bandhwari community and support of CAF and Incentive Destinations.

The centre works to improve the overall health status of population within the gram panchayat of Bandhwari by ensuring access to basic health care, medical treatment and diagnostic facilities. Community health workers identified and trained from within the village play a vital role in catalysing change by awareness building and linking needy people to the health centre.