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COMMUNITY OUTREACH
Our student-nurses conduct healthcare programmes year-round among target populations in villages, schools, slum colonies, individual families, hospital in-patient and out-patient departments, and health centers.
Objectives
All community health activities aim at prevention of disease, promotion of health awareness and rehabilitative healthcare, across all age groups. The following programmes are undertaken on the basis of community surveys:
- Prevention & management of malnutrition
- Anaemia among children and pregnant women
- Accidents at home
- Education on nutritive value of locally available foods
- Importance of personal and environmental hygiene
- Home management of seasonal diseases
- Awareness on social issues
- Imparting health education to school children on healthy habits, personal hygiene, etc
Programmes
Following are some of the Community Outreach Programmes undertaken by HFINE’s student-nurses since 2005.
Rural Community Outreach Project
1. Palghar, Thane District
Students undertook 3 projects:
- Family Planning – Methods, Advantages & Disadvantages
- Substance Abuse
- Prevention of Environmental Pollution
2. Saphala, Thane District
* Ill-effects of Alcoholism
* Tuberculosis Prevention, Control & Treatment
3. Kaman, Thane District
Students undertook 3 projects:
* Family Planning – Methods, Advantages & Disadvantages
* Importance of Education
* Leprosy Prevention, Control & Treatment
Urban Community Outreach
1. Bharadawada Health Post, Andheri (West), Mumbai
*Immunisation
*National Pulse Polio Programme
2. H/West Ward, Bandra. Collaborated with Navjeet Community Health Centre, Bandra. Venue: Jaffer Baba Colony. Conducted various health education programmes such as prevention & control of malaria, ill-effects of alcoholism, home management of burns, cuts, wounds, etc.
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