Promoting Rural Health by Health Promotion Camps

Mobile health care units are one of the more effective strategies for improving access to vital health care in rural areas especially for the homebound women and girls. The biggest advantage of a mobile health clinic is that it addresses the socio- cultural and economic barriers that prevent women and girls from seeking timely health care.

Mobile diagnostic clinic facility was provided in six villages of the Pataudi block in Haryana from April 2007 to May, 2008. This was our first effort towards rendering mobile clinic services to communities in the rural areas of Haryana.

The objective of the initiative was to provide medical treatment and curative health services to patients in underserved areas and perform critical preventive functions through health education activities focusing on behavioural change and by encouraging health seeking behaviour.

The mobile diagnostic clinic comprises of a team of doctor, nurse and a laboratory assistant engaged in extending medical help and health education support to the villagers’ in select project locations through weekly visits.