Summary

This health and development program aims to improve the health status in urban slums through the establishment of a decentralised health delivery system and development of strong local structures. The project is operational in 27 slums of the Mundhwa-Ghorpadi area, serving a population of 30,000.

Program goals

The Institute aims at the holistic development of the individual, family and community and is deeply committed to the upliftment of marginalised groups

Key program components

Institute of Health Management, Pune

This urban health and development programme established Arogya Vikas (Health and Development Committees) in all the project slums which focus on balancing IHMP priorities and the needs and issues identified by the community. The community contributes some financial inputs to promote partnership and ownership of the project while the Institute provides various systems of assessing community needs, participatory planning, and monitoring and accountability of health workers.

Institute of Health Management, PACHOD

The primary health care programme aims to generate a demand for quality health services for women and children by increasing access to primary health services as dictated through participatory community need assessments and ongoing surveillance systems. The program focuses on improving the coverage and quality of established services. The Institute provides those services that are not available through the government health system such as women's health, gynaecological morbidity, STD/HIV prevention, and neonatal care.

IHMP has specialised in the provision of obstetric care through traditional birth attendants and has established a preventive model for malnutrition in children under three. IHMP has developed community based surveillance and management systems for immunisation, women's health and child health, as well as a system for the management and care of neo-nates.

Secondary care: Navjeevan Rugnalaya is a 30 bed hospital which serves as a referral centre for villages within a radius of 30 kms. The hospital has good diagnostic and curative facilities and runs a regular outpatient clinic (OPD). Its primary focus is on women and children. Satellite clinics are conducted in nodal villages.