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 Our adopted villages are placed fairly far apart, so DIPIN attempts to bring healthcare facilities to each of them.
In India, marginalized communities suffer a very poor quality of life. Most children start out severely malnourished. More than 30% have never been inoculated against fatal diseases like Diphtheria and Tetanus. Due to illiteracy, ignorance and inaccessibility, sound health practices are sorely lacking. We make every effort to promote the good health and welfare of our rural communities.
DIPIN's medical programme is an urgent response to a range of serious health threats in disadvantaged rural societies. Our objective is to prevent needless deaths in poor families, nurture the wellbeing of our children and safeguard the health of the community.
Rural populations suffer from complicated illnesses like malaria and tuberculosis. Infant diarrhoea and dehydration are fatal. Children are always the most vulnerable to a host of diseases due to unsatisfactory living conditions at home. Young mothers too are always at risk of death due to a shocking lack of medical amenities and unhygienic conditions.
Deficiency diseases of bone and limb, dental disease, STIs and other such ailments are ever present, ensuring a low life expectancy.
We work in active partnership with highly qualified volunteer medical staff and the local Primary Healthcare Centre (PHC). In addition to this, we maintain a cordial networking system with local government doctors, nurses and midwives to ensure prompt medical attention, especially in emergencies. We also participate in the National Pulse Polio Program.
Because the initial census showed that very little information on the immunization status of our village children was available, DIPIN agreed to lead a free program to vaccinate all children below the age of 12, where the immunization status is in doubt. Our response is to: - Provide constant advice, information and subsidized medical treatment to our patients.
- Assist our doctors conduct informal discussions on hygiene with particular emphasis on women’s health.
- Run timely immunization programs to protect helpless infants from Polio, which is still rampant in the small, unsanitary hamlets in far-flung rural areas.
- Promote good health by working with primary healthcare centers and the government health services.
- Encourage the use of the 'delivery hut' complete with a ‘delivery table’. Midwives and nurses are at hand to assist in childbirth and in aftercare.
- Run a TB program in conjunction with the PHC called DOT. We also provide free medication to our patients.
- Instruct our doctors to run monthly classroom health screening for school children.
- Help improve standards by actively encouraging healthcare professionals to volunteer their time and skills to train our local staff.
- Help optimize the cost of healthcare by sourcing quality medical equipment and supplies, which are usually given to us gratis by donors.
- Run mobile clinics to all our villages, so that medical aid is accessible to the infirm and the aged. Added to this is the advantage of women and girls being able to access a doorstep audience with skilled health professionals for women-related health problems.
- Support volunteers in their campaign for environmental and bodily hygiene as well as good practices in food preparation and preservation.
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