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Parivaar has developed very strong grassroot presence, winning trust of communities and creating a large and committed team in these areas, through its work in SevaKutirs. We have see that these communities suffer from various problems, and have therefore started some new initiatives to address these issues. These are:
1. 24*7 Ambulance Services
Starting from 12th June 2021, we have launched one hundred twenty-three 24*7 Ambulance services across 22 districts in Madhya Pradesh. These are serving tribal pockets of these districts, which are highly underserved areas. The government is highly appreciative of this valuable service which is lacking in these areas. There are only a few government ambulances covering a tehsil/block, which spans more than 1000 sq.km. Because of this, people face huge difficulties in accessing hospitals when they get sick and need treatment.
The number of ambulances that we have decided to run in various districts depends on present govt. ambulance services in these areas, accessibility problems and our field and manpower strength across the villages.
The ambulances are used in two ways:
(i) On-call service: whenever we receive information from the patients’ families or from a hospital, for any urgent need, such as cases of accident, deliveries or serious illness, then the ambulance takes the patient to the hospital. The ambulance reaches their place which is interior villages and then takes them to the hospital. The hospitals are government hospitals at the Block level or District Headquarters, or even the nearest big city if the case requires that.
(ii) Cases referred to by our Mobile Clinic: We run mobile clinics also, where we take doctors to the interior villages for health checkup and treatment. They refer patients with chronic illnesses and other serious patients to the District Hospital or the nearest big city hospital. The ambulance takes all these patients to the referred hospital.
On a daily basis, one ambulance runs in the range of 100-250 kms, depending on the need and serves 2-6 patients.
District wise ambulances, which are already in operation, are given below:
| S.No | District | No. of Ambulances |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alirajpur | 12 |
| 2 | Dhar | 11 |
| 3 | Betul | 10 |
| 4 | Sheopur | 8 |
| 5 | Jhabua | 8 |
| 6 | Barwani | 8 |
| 7 | Mandla | 8 |
| 8 | Dindori | 7 |
| 9 | Seoni | 7 |
| 10 | Shivpuri | 5 |
| 11 | Ratlam | 5 |
| 12 | Chhindwara | 5 |
| 13 | Sehore | 4 |
| 14 | Khargone | 4 |
| 15 | Shahdol | 4 |
| 16 | Khandwa | 3 |
| 17 | Harda | 3 |
| 18 | Dewas | 2 |
| 19 | Balaghat | 3 |
| 20 | Anuppur | 3 |
| 21 | Sidhi | 2 |
| 22 | Burhanpur | 2 |
| 23 | Umaria | 1 |
| 24 | Narmadapuram | 1 |
| Total | 126 |
2. Mobile Health Clinics
Our experience of working in remote and poor tribal villages in Madhya Pradesh has highlighted the dismal conditions of people suffering with various diseases or disabilities. Due to poverty, lack of access to good hospitals and doctors, they suffer from the sickness without getting the desired treatment. Therefore, we have started full day mobile clinic service in the villages. We employ a qualified doctor who visits 4-5 villages daily and examines around 100-150 patients. Free medicines are also provided to the patients. Those patients who are referred to Block or District Level Hospitals, because of serious illness, are also taken to these hospitals for treatment by Parivaar.
| S.No | District | Number Of Clinics |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Betul | 3 |
| 2 | Sheopur | 2 |
| 3 | Sehore | 2 |
| 4 | Chhindwara | 2 |
| 5 | Khandwa | 1 |
| 6 | Dewas | 1 |
| 7 | Mandla | 1 | 8 | Dindori | 1 |
| 9 | Barwani | 1 |
| 10 | Alirajpur | 1 |
| 11 | Dhar | 1 |
| Total | 16 |
3. Parivaar Shravan Kumar Prakalpa :Vision Restoration Programme for Elderly
In the poor, rural areas in Madhya Pradesh, where we work, the problem of cataract and other eye ailments is very common, especially for the elderly. And due to poverty and difficulties in accessing good hospitals, most of them remain untreated, and gradually lose eyesight. It’s a tragedy that despite being a simply curable illness, cataract causes loss of eyesight for millions of persons in India.
To address this problem, we have collaborated with two highly reputed eye hospitals (of the same Trust) in Madhya Pradesh for this project, which is aimed at restoring the vision of poor villagers, especially the elderly. The eye hospitals are Shri SadguruSevaSangh Trust Eye Hospital, Anandpur, District Vidisha and Sri SadguruSevaSangh Trust Eye Hospital, Chitrakoot. There are two ways through which we are carrying out this activity:
(i) Community Outreach Camps: We facilitate organizing eye camps by these hospitals in our SevaKutir areas. Our team surveys an area of around 20 to 30 villages, spreads information through loudspeakers, pamphlets etc across these villages about the eye camps. On the day of the camp, patients from these villages come to attend the camp and get treated. We also actively take many patients in our vehicles from their homes to the camps. This is needed because many of them do not have means to travel, or for some other reasons, are not able to come to the camp by themselves. At the camp, patients are checked, given free medicines and glasses. Those patients who require surgery are selected for sending them to the Hospital in a bus in the next few days.
(ii) Patients’ Visits to Hospital: We take the persons identified for eye surgeries over a 3-4 days visit and stay to these hospitals for surgeries. While the hospital bears the surgery costs through government sponsorship, as well as staying and food costs, we bear the travelling costs. Our staff mobilizes the patients, take them to the hospital and handhold them during the visits and stay till they return to their homes.
We have named this as ParivaarShravan Kumar Prakalpa basing its ideal and deriving its inspiration from Shravan Kumar who was epitome of service for his blind parents.
The data of surgeries and treatment done in the last 11 and a half months is given below:
| S.No | Particulars | Quantity (in nos.) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Number of Districts Covered | 31 |
| 2 | Number of Camps Held | 1,667 |
| 3 | Number of Persons examined, given medication, & glasses | 2,71,977 |
| 4 | Number of Surgeries | 33,095 |
4. Fruit Tree Plantation Campaign
We have launched the fruit tree plantation campaign in November 2020. This initiative will help poor tribal villagers boost their nutritional status and will also be a source of livelihood. We have got the support from Mr. Raj Mohan’s Sustainable Green Initiative (www.greening.in) . Till now 70,000 saplings have been planted and more than 10,000 families have been benefitted across 3 districts – Mandla, Dewas and Sehore. The trees that have been planted
(i) Anaar (pomegranate)
(ii) Amrood (guava)
(iii) Sitaphal (custard apple)
(iv) Aanwla (Indian Goseberry)
(v) Moringa (Drumstick)
(vi) Papita (Papaya)
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