Our Work Areas: Good Health Program

This Program has been ongoing since 1999, even before Sukarya was formally registered in February 2001. The focus is preventive, curative and advocacy measures for a healthier society. The various Projects and activities under the Good Health Program are as follows:

1. Mobile Health Diagnostic Clinic

The Mobile Health Diagnostic Clinic was inaugurated on 5 November, 2006, at the Sukarya Sehat Mela, by the Hon'ble Parliamentary Secretary, Government of Haryana, Shri Rao Dan Singh. The goal of the mobile health clinic is to provide diagnostic services, referral services and free distribution of medicines. The clinic targets the remote rural regions of Haryana where primary health care services are either inaccessible, unaffordable or of low quality.

2. Anaemia Detection, Prevention and Eradication Campaign

Started in October 2005, the Project aims to reduce the prevalence of Iron Deficiency Anaemia among adolescent girls in the age group of 13-19 years, pregnant women and lactating mothers in Gurgaon district of Haryana in a span of 3 years. We are working in 10 villages of Gurgaon with a population of approximately -30,000. We are catering to 5420 women in the age group of 15-49 years of age, which includes 414 lactating women, 841 pregnant women and 1820 adolescent girls in the project area every year.

3. Sukarya Health Centre

Sukarya runs a Health Centre since 2005, in its premises at Sushant Lok, Gurgaon to provide free basic health care especially to children. 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. The Health Centre has specialist doctors in Allopathy, Homeopathy and Ayurveda. This has become a boon for the many poor and needy people residing in the urban clusters and construction sites in Gurgaon.

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

4. Swasthya Kendra, Village Bandhwari

Sukarya started a village health centre in the remote village of Bandhwari on the Faridabad Highway in the month of February, 07. The centre will cater to a population of 3500 in the village and aims to gradually improve the health indicators of the village. Sukarya has received financial assistance from Incentive Destinations facilitated through Charities Aids Foundation (CAF), India for running the health centre.

The Health Centre at Bandhwari village of Gurgaon block was inaugurated on 1st February, 2007. The venue of the Health Centre was selected and agreed upon by the Sarpanch and the Panchayat members of the village. The Health Centre includes one room for the doctor and a courtyard for the patients to sit and wait.

The Centre is functional from Monday to Friday, 10 am to 1.30 pm. The basic equipments in the Centre are Stethoscope, BP machine, ENT set, Thermometer, Weighing scale, Stitching Tray, Ishara charts (Eye charts), 2 Steel drum for keeping sterile gauge, Dusting pan, Height measuring apparatus, Vaporizer, Hot bag and Torch. The team includes 2 doctors, assistant, volunteers and project staff.

The Managing Director of the funding agency, Incentive Destinations, Mr. Anoop Nair and 14 visitors from Colorado along with CAF representatives, Mr. Abhishek and Ms. Anwita Singh visited, village Bandhwari on 12 February, 2007. They were briefed about the socio - economic and cultural status of the village. They interacted with the village Aganwari workers, Panchayat members and the women group members. They visited the health centre and were very satisfied with the efforts put in by Sukarya. They appreciated the functioning of the health centre and assured full support for future activities.

5. Physiotherapy Unit

The Physiotherapy Unit was started on 15 August, 2005 and operates in the premises of Sukarya. The unit caters to 200 patients on an average per month from rural and urban areas. This unit was initiated to emphasize the importance of physiotherapy as an effective treatment and its preventive role in conditions that affect the musco-skeletal system of an individual like arthritis or injuries by accident. Sukarya is creating strong awareness on physiotherapy in the rural and urban areas of Gurgaon on a regular basis.

6. Generalized and Specialized Medical Camps and Health Mela

Sukarya organizes comprehensive health care camps and specialized medical camps in urban slums and rural villages in Gurgaon regularly to help the poor access free health care services including medical check-up, diagnosis and referral services. Sukarya has organized diabetes detection camp, heart care camps, mental health camps, eye camp, multi-specialty treatment camp and health check up camps for pregnant and lactating women. These camps also serve the purpose of advocating healthy practices through workshops, presentations and informal discussions. The camps are conducted by doctors from the South Delhi Medical Association. Sukarya caters to 500 patients on an average in each camp.

For the year 2006-07, 10 General Health Camps and 10 follow-up camps were held in the following villages- Ghata, Tighra, Samaspur, Wazirabad, Kanhai, Silokhra, Sainikahera, Bandhwari, Gwalpahari and Waliawas. The main objective of the health camp was to provide free health check up for all men, women and children and catered to 100 patients on an average. The major health problems that emerged during the camps were occurrence of Typhoid, Diarrhoea, skin diseases, Anaemia, under nutrition, Respiratory Tract infections, Tuberculosis and Reproductive tract infections.

7. Pulse Polio Vaccination Drive

Sukarya joined hands with the Health Department of Government of Haryana, for conducting the Pulse Polio Vaccination drive in the slum area of DLF phase-V, Gurgaon. Sukarya organized door to door campaign and covered approximately 1000 slum children in 2004. For the last one years Sukarya's community mobilizers and volunteers pay house to house visit to ensure Polio Vaccination in the project villages.

8. Cleanliness Drive

Sukarya initiated a cleanliness drive in the slum of DLF Phase-V in 2004. The objective was to educate and motivate the slum dwellers to keep their vicinity clean for preventing recurrent outbreaks of diseases like malaria, cholera, TB , dengue. We regularly educate the slum dwellers on the importance and ways of maintaining hygiene and sanitation.