COMMUNITY CARE
- INTRODUCTION
The Bandra Holy Family Hospital has epoused the noble cause of health care for the poor and the marginalized section of society, irrespective of caste, creed and class. Keeping these principles in mind, an outreach wing named NAVJEET COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE, came into existence.
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The approach to community health is that people should be regarded not as targets of intervention but rather as agents of participation. They should endeavour to hold the key to health in their own hands and must be empowered to realise and take responsiblity for it.
This emphasizes the role for the Community Health Worker (C.H.W), a person who is constantly on the move visiting slums, educating people on how to strenthen their own health and raise there immunity to disease.
Good nutrition immunization, hygenic lifestyle can go a long way to safeguard one's health.
In the slums it is generally the womenfolk who take the lead for health and socially related problems. The woman is the heart of each home. It is she who bears the major burden when family members fall sick.
The womens groups which emerges slowly, in due course move towards a more organised form caled MAHILA MANDAL.
Navjeet has presently 28 Mahila Mandals in its target areas of slums in Bandra and Andheri.
