Mobile Health Diagnostic Clinic

Mobile Health Diagnostic Clinic (MHDC)

Hon’ble, Parliamentary Secretary, Government of Haryana,Shri Rao Dan Singh inaugurated the Mobile Health Diagnostic Clinic on 5^th November, 2006, at Sukarya Sehat Mela.

About the project

The goal of the Mobile Health Diagnostic Clinic is to, Reach the Un-Reached and to Serve the Under-Served, to provide quality health care at the door steps, in areas where there is absence of health care or services are inaccessible, unaffordable or low quality.

The focus of the Mobile Health diagnostic clinic is on remote, rural regions of Haryana.

The main objective of the Mobile Diagnostic Health Clinic is to provide specific treatment after proper diagnosis at the early stages of any disease, unlike the treatment given on basis of sole judgment of the doctor ,due to lack of diagnostic facilities. This checks the disease from taking a serious form and leads to reduction in chances of morbidity and mortality.

The Mobile Health Clinic is equipped with diagnostic equipment like-

• ECG
• X-Ray Machine
• Fully Functional Pathological Lab( blood,urine,stool tests)

The mobile clinic visits the villages at a fixed time and in a fixed place on a fortnightly basis, a munadi in the villages precedes the visit of the clinic .Two doctors, two lab technicians, one medicine dispenser, one project coordinator, one field supervisor, and ten volunteers go to the village with the clinic. The volunteers pay door to door visits in the village to generate awareness on health and to encourage people to come for health check ups. A temporary health clinic is setup on site and health checkups are done for all people who come to the clinic for treatment and advice. As per requirement, on the spot pathological tests and X-rays are done and reports are developed. Consistent follow up and counseling of all patients is done. Medicines are provided free of cost.

Project Goal:

Better health status of men, women and children of the villages of Haryana with the help of mobile health care and diagnostic services

Objective

• To provide preventive health care, through educational and awareness programmes with a special focus on women and health.
• To provide diagnostic facilities with the help of X-ray, ECG, and Path lab tests.
• To prescribe and dispense medicines at the primary health care level and refer serious cases to the district hospitals.
• To focus on reduction and prevalence of anemia.
• To conduct Behavior Change Communication (BCC) activities and raise awareness about preventive health care issues including, immunization family planning, communicable and other diseases through audio visual facilities.
• To provide adolescent friendly health services. To educate adolescent peer groups on sexual and reproductive health issues. So that the peer groups generate awareness among the other peers in the community.
• To enhance community participation through Village Action Groups.
• To conduct regular health clinic and counseling services

Target Group-

15 villages of Haryana.

The mobile health clinic targets the community of Bapas, Pahari, Titarpur Dhani, Khetiawas, Nanukhurd villages in Pataudi Block District Gurgaon.

It also serves the ten project villages of Sukarya in Gurgaon Block, District Gurgaon i.e. Samaspur, Wazirabad, Kanhai, Silokhra, Sainikhera, Ghata, Tigra, Gwalpahari, Waliawas, Bandhwari.

Who will be benefited and how?

The people of the community of target villages will be the direct beneficiaries of the project; they will get access to healthcare facility with a diagnostic facility not easily available in the target village’s .The main focus is on women and children who are dependent on men in the family to take them to distant hospitals as women have limited mobility due to social constraints. The project also seeks to attend to the old people with health needs.