Free Community Health Programs

Taking Health Care To Rural India

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Overview

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Context

The Vellore and Thiruvanamalai Districts of Tamil Nadu, South India have many areas without accessible medical care. Lack of accessible quality health care unevenly affects people experiencing poverty within cities and villages as well as the surrounding countryside.  There is a substantial increase in health risks including heart disease, diabetes, respiratory diseases, blood diseases including Covid, insect borne diseases including malaria and dengue fever, and diseases worsened by lack of nutrition.  Lack of accessible healthcare is one of the contributing factors to increased disease for children and adults in the underserved areas we reach out to.

Activities

Free Community Health Programs specialize on commonly diagnosed health concerns in the local areas. The Programs are conducted by The Sri Narayani Hospital and Research Centre Health Care Group as a part of their Social Outreach Programs. Each Health Program will have a specific medical theme as well as general medicine and the associated specialized doctors, nurses and support staff attend. Medical screening could focus on high blood pressure, diabetes, gynecology, bone density, ophthalmology or specialized medical conditions prevalent in the local areas we serve. Primary treatments include free vitamins, minerals and common prescriptions for common local diseases.  The programs we support help neighbourhoods and villages which generally have little access to regular medical treatment and very little access to free medical care.  All of the results of the consultations are recorded and each individual will eventually develop a complete health record. The medical team provides free primary medical diagnosis and treatments including early medical screening to all, regardless of faith, class or economic status. 

The Free Community Health Programs are conducted to screen the community for risk factors with a view to identifying diseases and preventing its complications. Our team of doctors and nurses treat minor illnesses at the site and detect major illnesses including noncommunicable diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, cardiac ailments, and cancers of breast, cervix and prostate and refer them for further management and follow up at SNHRC Hospital.

The Department of Social Medicine at The Sri Narayani Hospital Group plays a vital role in taking Hospital Care to the surrounding community through a wide network of community centres, schools, as well as public and private buildings. The Department seeks to understand the effect of socio-economic, genetic, and environmental factors that have an impact on local people leading to disease and disability.  The Department of Social Medicine establishes preventive and prophylactic medical and health screening measures to control and protect individuals and the community at large.

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One of the hospital groups that we support is The Sri Narayani Hospital and Allied Medical Services Group.  The Hospital Group motto is “Service With Love” and the purpose of this organization is to decommercialize medicine and make quality health care accessible, to incorporate human values in medical care and to include spiritual well being as a medical concept.  This is the main campus and The Nursing College and other colleges and hospitals are on auxiliary sites.

Free Community Health Outreach

Our Goal

Our goal is to provide mobile medical services through local South Indian Hospitals, including The Sri Narayani Hospital and it’s affiliates. Free Community Health Programs improve health and resiliency by donating medicines, vitamins, minerals and medical disposables for 6 months of free community health outreach programs.  The programs serve disadvantaged people and are in conjunction with existing programs offered by local hospitals in India.  The Community Health Program consists of a team of doctors, nurses and medical students travelling by bus and van to rural and urban neighbourhoods to over 30 villages in South India on a regular basis.  

 

We support programs that provide free community health outreach in association with charitable organizations throughout the Vellore and Tiruvannamalai Districts in India. Each health outreach is focused on particular diseases that are familiar to the local population including diabetes, high blood pressure, malaria and a host of pathogens.  We provide medicines, vitamins, disposables and portable medical equipment for the outreach programs. 

Optimal Community Health

The communities we support organize the logistics to reach into disadvantaged rural and urban communities.  The team includes specialized nurses,  doctors, as well as nursing and paramedical students sent to the location of the community outreach.  Free community health outreach is conducted regularly to over 400 neighbouring rural villages and urban neighbourhoods.  Each community outreach is specialized to the health needs of the area. The outreach is held in village community centers, village schools and includes remote mountainous indigenous regions.  

We serve over 30 small villages or hamlets as well as underserved urban neighbourhoods. Community health outreach programs are specialized for common illnesses in the regions we support.  Each patient is accessed for health parameters and their health is documented for future referral.  Specialized outreach themes include assessments for general health, neurology, ophthalmology, cardiology, diabetes, and audiology to name a few. At risk patients, identified through the free health outreach program, are referred back to hospitals for further diagnosis.  Each individual receives the most benefit from our health outreach programs to achieve the best health care outcomes, free of cost.

medical equipment 

Free Community Health Outreach Medical Programs we donate medicines and medical equipment to support self-determined medical goals for hospitals in India.   By donating medical equipment, medicines and medical disposables, our goal is to improve care and subsidize any cost of the health care needs of the local communities each Free Community Health Outreach serves. 

The Hospital Group that has created the Free Community Health Outreach includes The Sri Narayani Hospital and Research Centre, The Sri Sakthi Amma Hospital, and Sakthi Amma Clinics. 

The motto of this charitable group is “Service With Love” and this motto is seen in practice throughout the hospital system.  The charitable purposes of this group are to reach underserved people with excellent health care.  As well as providing excellent health care, doctors, nurses and technicians are trained in order to provide excellent quality healthcare that is both affordable and available. This  Free Community Health Outreach Program is offered to under-served rural, urban and indigenous people of the Vellore and Tiruvannamalai District communities in South India.    

Medical Supplies and Equipment Includes:

Essential Medication

Personal Protective Equipment

Essential Vitamins

Essential Supplements

Mobile Equipment for Medical Outreaches

Ophthalmology Equipment

Cardiology Equipment

Defibrillators

Cancer Diagnostic Equipment

Essential Medical Diagnosis

Stethoscopes

Blood Pressure Monitors

Patient Transporters

Ultrasounds and Related Equipment

Patient Transporters

Other Life Saving Equipment

Other Diagnostic Equipment

Essential Medical Advice

Essential Life Style Advice

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How Can This Program be Supported?

The programs serve disadvantaged people and are in conjunction with existing programs offered by local hospitals in India.  The Community Health Program consists of a team of doctors, nurses and medical students travelling by bus and van to rural and urban neighbourhoods to over 30 villages in South India on a regular basis.  

 Each health outreach is focused on particular diseases that are familiar to the local population including diabetes, high blood pressure, malaria and a host of pathogens.  We provide medicines, vitamins, disposables and portable medical equipment for the outreach programs. 

Each outreach program costs approximately C$750 for the medicines, vitamins, and minerals required. The total cost of our outreach is anticipated to be C$9000 for 12 monthly visits to disadvantaged communities.  Your donation will directly purchase the much needed medicines, vitamins, and minerals to support our life-saving work.

Please consider donating to support free Double The Donation Community Health Programs in South India so that we may advance awareness and reduce illness from disease!

Our Free Community Health Outreach Program serves local residents without access to any type of healthcare.  The Free Community Health reaches undersurved rural or urban people, tribal or indigenous people, and underserved migrant people in the Vellore and Tiruvannamalai Districts of South India. 

Diagnosis are made and free medicines are given in this maternal health outreach.
This free community medical program reaches into the most disenfranchised communities, offering free medical checkups to everyone.

Canadians Sharing Locally + Globally provides medical, nutritional, educational and environmental outreach in India. As an entirely volunteer-orientated organization with no employees, every donation is invested efficiently and directly into our impactful humanitarian programs.