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Community Health Centre

Village Konkan, Union Council Sarli Sacha, District Muzaffarabad, AJK.

Sungi Development Foundation has recently started a community health centre in Konkan, District Muzaffarabad, AJK with financial support of Royal Norwegian Embassy. Konkan is a remote village which lies at around 6500ft and is in the union council of Serli Secha, some 36 km from Muzzafarabad. The area has a population of around 8000 and does not consist of a single dispensary due to which people are often forced to travel to Patika or Muzzafarabad for minor health problems even.

The community health centre has been made from a large shipping container brought in from Scotland. This container has been provided and recycled into an office unit for use as a clinic by Edinburgh Direct Aid. Edinburgh Direct Aid is a charity registered in Scotland, founded in 1992 and aims to deliver material aid directly to those in need, and raise awareness of donors and supporters through communication of experiences of volunteers working aboard.

Goal:
To reduce the vulnerability of the local communities especially women and children by improving health status through provision of preventive and curative health services.

Objectives:
• Establishment of a community health centre to provide basic health services to more then eight thousand (8,000) local population.
• To improve the health of women and children by provision of MCH services
• To improve the health status of local communities by provision of preventative health status
• Capacity building of 150 local community volunteers in first aid and health and hygiene
• To establish referral linkages with the health department in AJK and other health service organizations.

Key activities of the Community Health Centre include:
• Mother and child health care including Antenatal care, delivery services (normal), post natal and neo natal care and detection and treatment of STIs/RTIs.
• Diagnostic services including establishment of a well equipped laboratory services for basic investigations.
• Establishment of referral linkages for emergency shifting of patients.
• Establishing community health volunteers.
• Coordination and networking at local and district level including holding dialogues with stake holders/policy makers and other health service organizations.

Achievements:
The total number of patients who have directly benefited from the centre were 316, in which 48% were women, 31% were female children, 16% were men and 5%were male children. Two deliveries have also been conducted so far.

COMMUNITY INTEGRATED SUPPORT PROJECT

Based on the learning at the grass root levels and needs being identified by the earthquake affected communities, a comprehensive recovery and rehabilitation programme has been devised. This is a one year project built-up of Aashiana project being implemented by Sungi Development Foundation with financial and technical assistance of care-Pakistan. The project seeks to provide earthquake affected population with primary healthcare, regular health program through medical camp; develop capacity of already selected community volunteers on community based health and disaster management through comprehensive training program; establish 50 tent clinics in target area, raise awareness on preventive and reproductive health; promote vaccination among the target population; provide access to quality of antenatal, postnatal and safe delivery services; and establish network for referral system.

The Community Integrated Support Project (CISP) envisions reaching a population of around 250,000 in 128 villages in District Mansehra. The primary beneficiaries of the programme include widows, single women, women-headed households, orphans and children and is spread in five union councils of Siran valley, three Union Councils of Kounsh Valley, and Tanda Bajna Union Council with Union Council Shinkiari in District Mansehra.

Achievements
• Fifty Village Committees (VCs) have been organized including 26 male and 24 female organizations. These VCs regularly organize their weekly internal meetings. The project team organized monthly meetings with the VCs. During these meetings, health awareness sessions were held in the shape of role plays and group discussions. Health committees and Disaster management committees have been established.
• A total of 95 CHVs (50 male/45 female) have been identified and trained. These CHVs remained active in supporting the project team during the medical camps and organizing health awareness sessions. Door to door visits are being conducted by the trained CHVs. Health and hygiene promotion was also carried out while rendering their services in tent clinics.
• 10 sessions with male volunteers and 1 session with female volunteers have been conducted. The sessions focused on first aid, public health, curative health, balance diet, vaccination, reproductive health, family planning, etc.
• The project has established one tent clinic while erection of another twenty four is underway.
• In total, 35 camps have been organized in the target area till now. Average number of patients visiting a camp was around 150. A total of 5250 patients benefited from these camps out of which 200 cases were antenatal and postnatal.
• The project team has identified 40 TBAs from the project area. The staff has developed the TBA training module and will start the TBA in June.
• The project team contacted three health care providers (RHC Shinkiari, ATH Abbottabad and DHQ Mansehra) in order to develop referral linkages. A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) has been developed and efforts would be made to formalize these contacts.
• Sungi staff conducted three coordination meetings with the local representatives and district officials. Dialogue with local health officials was also initiated. These mainly included doctors and lady doctors of RHC; Shinkiari District Officials; EDO health and MS DHQ Hospital Mansehra.



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