2. In 2013-2014, we at Health Line were to start some new programs to venture into
serving new target groups, while withdrawing from a few programs after registering
grand successes therein. A brief account of the same is mentioned as hereunder:
Providing Outsourced Services at Governmental Hospitals
We were able to continue successfully to contribute our mite under the Public Private
Partnership mode to the regeneration of health delivery services in Bihar. Services of
Health Line were continuously been hired by the District Health Society, Kishanganj,
under the auspices of the State Health Society, Bihar. Health Line started this
assignment since 1st June, 2006 through entering in to a formal contract with the DHS,
Kishanganj that has been renewed annually on the basis of our high standard of services
provided in the areas of housekeeping, laundry, gardening, supplying power through
3. generators and providing diet to the patients in all hospital units in its control.
The details of the manpower involved in this task are as follow:
Hospital
Name
Housekeeping
Staff
Gardene
r
Washerman Super
-visor
Total
Male Female
Male
Femal
e
Sadar
Hospital,
Kishanganj
18 29 2 1 3 53
Referral
Hospital,
Chhattargachh
4 5 1 1 11
PHC, Belwa 5 4 1 1 1 12
PHC,
Kochadhaman
6 3 1 1 1 12
PHC, 3 6 1 1 1 12
4. Bahadurganj
PHC,
Dighalbank
6 3 1 1 1 12
PHC, Podhia 6 3 1 1 1 12
PHC,
Thakurganj
6 3 1 1 1 12
PHC,
Tedhagachh
5 4 1 1 1 12
Total 59 60 9 5 4 11 148
Association with World Health Partner (WHP) in Tele Medicine
Further boosting our contribution to the delivery of health services even to the remote
rural areas we continued to take help of the technology driven intervention by providing
the patients expert consultation by tele conferencing through our 145 sky centers in
West Champaran, East Champaran, Gopalganj, Muzaffarpur, Samastipur and Sitamarhi
districts for the patients suffering from TB, diarrhea, Pneumonia and Kala Azar. We also
focused on the TB-afflicted persons who were identified and provided pathological tests
to assess the condition of their affliction and status so that a specific treatment could be
started for every such patient who were kept under continued surveillance. We also
identified the Kala Azar-afflicted patients and referred them to the local PHC for
treatment.
The numbers of the beneficiary patients were as hereunder:
Sl. No. Particular Number of
Patients
1 Patients treated at Sky Centre 1296
2 TB Patients referred to PHC 36
3 Kala Azar Patients referred to
PHC
2
Total 1334
5. Nutritional Rehabilitation Center, Kishanganj
The 20 bed well equipped facility manned by a Pediatrician, 2 ANMs, 2 feeding
demonstrators, 2 cooks, 3 caretakers, 3 security guards and 2 sweepers and called
Nutrition Rehabilitation Center (NRC) continued to be run by us at Sadar Hospital
Premises, Kishanganj and Sheohar to provide a focused treatment to infants and
children inflicted with Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM).
The residential medical treatment to such children with special feeding and care for
three weeks along with intensive growth monitoring was provided this year to a total of
25 batches of SAM infants and children comprising 523 ones, 244 of them males and
279 females. Among them, 377 were rehabilitated within this year.
The details of the batch wise rehabilitation of the children at Kishanganj are as
hereunder:
Sl.
No.
Batch
No.
Dates of Children's
Stay at NRC
Number of
SAM
Admitted
Male Female Number of
Rehabilitated
Children
1 22 29/7/2013 to
19/8/2013
20
7 13 11
2 23 22/8/2013 to 20 11 9 16
6. 12/9/2013
3 24 15/9/2013 to
6/10/2013
20
6 14 17
4 25 17/10/2013 to
7/11/2013
20
8 12 18
5 26 11/11/2013 to
2/12/2013
20
7 13 17
6 27 17/12/2013 to
7/1/2014
20
8 12 17
7 28 11/1/2014 to
31/1/2014
19
9 11 17
8 29 5/2/2014 to
26/2/2014
11
10 10 19
9 30 1/3/2014 to
31/3/2014
20
12 8 17
10 31 11/11/2013 to
2/12/2013
20
11 9 18
11 32 17/12/2013 to
7/1/2014
20
9 11 17
12 33 11/1/2014 to
31/1/2014
20
11 9 17
13 34 5/2/2014 to
26/2/2014
20
9 11 16
14 35 1/3/2014 to
31/3/2014
46
24 22 47
Total 306 142 164 264
Likewise, the information pertaining to the NRC at Sheohar, during this year was as
follows:
Sl.
No.
Batch
No.
Dates of Children's
Stay at NRC
Number of
SAM
Admitted
Male Female Number of
Rehabilitated
Children
7. 1 1 5/4/13 TO 26/4/13 20 7 13 4
2 2 1/5/13 to 22/5/13 20 13 7 15
3 3 27/5/13 to 17/6/13 20 12 8 14
4 4 22/6/13 to 14/7/13 20 9 11 13
5 5 14/8/13 to 4/9/13 20 7 13 11
6 6 9/9/13 to 30/9/13 20 9 11 13
7 7 5/10/13 to 26/10/13 20 6 14 10
8 8 16/11/13 to 6/12/13 20 9 11 13
9 9 12/12/13 to 2/1/14 20 11 9 10
10 10 1/2/14 to 22/2/14 20 7 13 6
11 11 27/2/14 to 15/3/14 17 12 5 4
Total 217 102 115 113
Day Care Home for Old Age Persons
We always wanted to do some meaningful work for the persons of old age, of whom we
saw many in helpless condition in both categories living with their families and living
without. As running a full-fledged Old Age Home entailed substantial costs that was not
possible to manage without a specific grant, we decided, first to start with a Day Care
Center at Patna near Malahi Pakadi Chowk, Kankarbagh. We had contacts in the nearby
localities wherefrom we enlisted cooperation of community volunteers to inform and
bring such old age persons who were in need of specific medical help to the Centre,
where our staff members took care of them and after their proper enrollment, helped
them be provided with medical check ups and medicines. Gradually, the words about
this centre spread in the area and old age persons started to come there on their own.
In this year, a total of 477 such persons were enrolled in this centre and provided with
the services.
Seminar on Reproductive Health, Child Immunization & Nutrition
Spreading our work in Kishanganj District, we held a program at the Women's College at
Kishanganj on the occasion of Malaria Divas in which 105 students and the members of
8. the teaching staff at this college were facilitated on the issues of Reproductive Health,
Child Immunization & Nutrition by our facilitators. It was a very lively and interactive
event that evinced keen interest among the college students on the theme and the
facilitators had a tough time satiating the inquisitiveness of the participants.
Workshop on Malaria Diwas
Malaria is one curse which has been ravaging these areas from old time and always take
a toll in terms of precious human lives. As such, we decided to contribute our mite in
this direction and planned a workshop of ASHAs and ANMs at Bahadurganj PHC in
Kishanganj District. Our workers tried hard to collect these frontline service providers in
this Block as they were the persons who remained in constant touch with the
communities. A total of 70 ASHAs and 20 ANMs participated in this workshop that was
facilitated by Medical Officers and other facilitators who made the participants fully
aware about the prevention, identification and the curative services to be provided to
the patients. The participants, in their turn, recounted their experiences of the cases
9. and asked a number of questions that were answered by the facilitators to the
satisfaction of them.
Workshop on Kala Azar
Kala Azar has been the other malady in this area, which took a heavy toll every year. As
such, feeling the
necessity of making
aware the communities
about this killer, we
again decided to make
aware the frontline
service providers first.
We organized this one
at the Tedhagachh PHC,
where we collected 57
ASHAs, 48 MAMTAs
and 22 ANMs for the
purpose and
thoroughly worked with them for a wholesome information and knowledge on this
dreaded disease. As the outcome of the workshop, the participants came to know how
to identify a Kala Azar patient, where to refer him/her and how to monitor the
treatment. In all, this was found to be a so very useful exercise for the participants, a
benefit that would ultimately reach the target communities.
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10. and asked a number of questions that were answered by the facilitators to the
satisfaction of them.
Workshop on Kala Azar
Kala Azar has been the other malady in this area, which took a heavy toll every year. As
such, feeling the
necessity of making
aware the communities
about this killer, we
again decided to make
aware the frontline
service providers first.
We organized this one
at the Tedhagachh PHC,
where we collected 57
ASHAs, 48 MAMTAs
and 22 ANMs for the
purpose and
thoroughly worked with them for a wholesome information and knowledge on this
dreaded disease. As the outcome of the workshop, the participants came to know how
to identify a Kala Azar patient, where to refer him/her and how to monitor the
treatment. In all, this was found to be a so very useful exercise for the participants, a
benefit that would ultimately reach the target communities.
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