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Gram Seva News
  May -June 2008
Children's Fair, ICU, Gram Seva’s Project for Reproductive & Child Health (RCH) launched full story

  March and April 2008

Award for Excellence. Eye Camp.Women's Intervational Day & more day

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  January & February 2008
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   December 2007
Alcohol Rehab, Ambulance donation, Cataract  Surgery, School check ups
full story

  November
Gram Seva Foundation Board Meeting was held on November 18, 2007.

full story

  November 2007
 
Holistic Development of our Rural Tribal Communities.  
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Women’s Self Help Group (SHG) participated in the sale of their products at a Handicraft Fare on 24th November. .
 
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Successful  hospital cases of the month:
 
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  October 2007
One more Tuition class has been added this month bringing the number to 13 classes. As the school drop rate is very high in our region due to poor education in the schools these coaching classes have been very successful.
 
‘Jivan Vidya Project’ (Health Education Project) has been started thanks to the sponsorship by Larson & Tobreau Construction Company,  
October 28th through 30th were dedicated to the hard work and skill of our rural women . 
A free Eye Clinic examines 100 patients

The Out Patient load this month reached 3390 & Inpatient work load was 377   
 
We now offer completely free Labor & Delivery services to all our patients in the general ward. 
 
Laboratory is well equipped for most of the basic investigations. We have acquired a Hemoglobin Electrophoresis Analyzer  to screen congenital anemias.

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Malnutrition

"What happens to another, be that a joy or a sorrow, happens to me." (Meister Eckhart)

Major problem for our Children: High rate of malnutrition

According to India's National Nutritional Bureau, more than half the deaths of newborn to five-year-old children are directly or indirectly related to malnutrition and only nine percent are nutritionally normal.  Stunting is widespread in our children as they succumb to malnutrition in the first two years of their lives.

Children's nutrition should be a critical component of all programs dealing with the welfare of our children and our community at large.

Malnutrition leads to:

  • Susceptibility to fatal infections such as TB, Gastroenteritis and Pneumonia
  • Vitamin and mineral deficiencies
  • Anemia
  • Retarded physical growth
  • Permanent retardation of brain development

In 2007 ,of the 3073 children 0 to 5 year old checked and followed, 99 were migrants and severe malnutrition rate in these children was 10.10%. In rest of the children the severe malnutrition rate ranged from 0.7% to 3.13% depending on the condition of the communities concerned. Our biggest draw back is the scourge of alcoholism in many of our communities in addition to Preterm Deliveries, IUGR (Intra-Uterine Growth Retardation), Cerebral Palsy, Adolescent Pregnancies, Tuberculosis and Congenital Heart Disease.

Though the process is slow and sometimes frustrating, it is certainly very worthwhile and extremely gratifying.

 Nothing can compare to the joy one feels in seeing sad, malnourished and frightened children transform into happy, healthy and enthusiastic ones, ready to face and dream about their future tomorrows.

 

 

 

 

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