A healthcare center that helped Anira get back to her livelihood,
Anira is 54 years old. She lives in Barddhaman district. She works as a domestic help in a few homes in the neighboring towns. She earns a very meagre income which just about helps her in making ends meet.
She has two daughters. With great difficulty she got her older daughter married . She wants to get her younger daughter married too. However, she isn't able to arrange for finances for the wedding.
Recently she started falling ill regularly and was unable to work. She started feeling dizzy and having frequent headaches and chest pains. She wanted to get medical attention but couldn't afford to visit the doctor because of her financial situation.
A neighbor then told her about the health center set up by Rural Health Care Foundation. When she came to know that the consultation cost would be minimal, she went to the health center to seek help.
Dr. Adhikary, the physician of the Health center diagnosed her with a case of high blood pressure. She had been suffering from high blood pressure for some time. Her blood vessels were weakened as she was not taking any medicines. She was so weak that if her blood pressure was not lowered immediately she could have had a stroke.
She was immediately given medicines free of cost. She was also told to practice some exercises to lower her blood pressure and keep it under control.
Under his supervision she made a quick recovery. Anira's weak immune system was responsible for her illness. Due to the lack of awareness and facilities in the village, she did not know how to respond to her symptoms.
Under the guidance of Dr. Adhikari, she is now rebuilding her health. She visits the health center for regular checks. She now can work and earn her livelihood without stress of her illness.
Anira, grateful for the help, now recommends the health center to all her friends and family.
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Program Description
Rural Health Care Foundation attends to the basic medical needs of people in over 150 villages as well as the slums of Kolkata.
Access to affordable healthcare is a challenge in many rural and slum areas of West Bengal. Rural Health Care Foundation hopes to bring this service to these underserved areas by establishing 'Health Centers?
General medicine is one of the most important departments in all the primary health care centres of RHCF's.
The people bring their 'Below Poverty Line?(BPL) Card or certificates issued from their local Panchayats. This makes them eligible for the free treatment at the Health Centers. The patients are charged a one time nominal fee of Rs.60/- to Rs.70/- for registration.
An MBBS doctor is appointed in each centre of the four centres to treat the patients. Medicines prescribed by the doctor are distributed free to all the patients. Feedback is taken by the paramedical
staff to ensure the proper utilization of the medicines. After they are given medicines a follow-up consultation is scheduled within 7 to 10 days to ensure that they are fully recovered.
The health center have addressed close to 11,37,000 patients since their inception in 2007 through their programs in West Bengal. Close to 190,00 patients depend on the health centers every year.
When you donate to this program, you can help villages which have no or little access to basic healthcare facilities get the medical attention they deserve.
Rural Health Care Foundation
Program Updates
5 July, 2020
High quality and low cost primary medical care for the underprivileged
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High quality and low cost primary medical care for the underprivileged
Good health can strengthen communities to overcome challenges of poverty and even strive for a better future. Thus, we have been continuing our efforts with vigour and making high quality primary care accessible and affordable for the poor in both rural and urban regions of West Bengal through our out-patient healthcare centres. In the last quarter, we succeeded in providing over 85,000 underprivileged patients with quality primary care. With over 60% being female patients, our work has been continuing to empower the underprivileged women with stronger health. Inadequate healthcare system is still a critical issue affecting the poor in India but our impact has been reasserting our faith in our efforts.
19 November, 2019
Patients receiving the care and support
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Patients receiving the care and support
22 July, 2019
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Program Update
While rural areas are affected by lack of medical facilities, quality care provided in cities are unaffordable for urban underprivileged communities. Our healthcare centres are focused on delivering quality medical care at low-cost to serve these people living in underserved areas. Between January and March 2019, 69612 patients received treatment at our healthcare centres - 53593 in General Medicine, 8216 in Optometry, 2606 in Dentistry and 5197 in Homeopathy. Our plan for the next quarter not only includes the continued service of communities through our high-quality and low-cost patients, but also access of healthcare facilities for more people in need of medical care through newer centres.
Story from the field
Lively, strong, good-humoured and resilient Farha Swakat (Prescription No. 55674) is a 36 year old woman who has been visiting our primary healthcare centre at Zakaria Street regularly. She started visiting our doctor after developing skin problems. For people, especially women, of underprivileged families, getting proper treatment becomes difficult. Often the low-cost treatment facilities fail to adhere to basic healthcare standards and offer unsatisfactory services. Ineffective treatment affects the health of the patients. Since the earnings of underserved communities are hardly enough to seek quality care offered by private firms, their health suffers further. Our urban healthcare centres were opened to counter this very problem and help patients like Farha. Affordability makes it easy for her to avail our care and stick to the treatment plan recommended by our physician. Repeat visits don’t affect her earnings either. She visited our centre on 10th May to follow up on her skin issues. Very familiar with our staff, she got her check up done at low-cost and took the free 1-week’s supply of the prescribed medication. She has been continuing her treatment and is getting better as well. She fights financials constraints almost everyday, but with affordable and effective primary medical care, we try to ease her otherwise rough life.
| What is the expected total number of beneficiaries in this program for FY18-19? | 278202 |
| What is the number of beneficiaries/ benefits provided in this program, Year-To-Date | 278202 |
| Village/City/State where project is located | West Bengal |
| Total Budget for the project for FY18-19 | 41872289 |
| Total Expenses for the project YTD | 41872289 |
