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Vivekananda Girijana Kalyana Kendra
Vivekananda Girijana Kalyana Kendra
Not-for-profit
Year launched: 1981Existing or expanding (post-pilot)
Approach
Target geography
Target Population
Target income level
- Bottom 20%
Health focus
- Family planning and reproductive health
- Primary care
Summary
This organization runs a hospital and provides a mobile medical unit for remote areas. The hospital also trains young women as midwives to be stationed in surrounding areas.Program goals
This program aims to implement a comprehensive, holistic, need-based, gender & culture-sensitive, community -centered, system of health care integrating indigenous health traditions.
Key program components
The program includes:
A 20 bedded Tribal Hospital with laboratory, X-ray and Operation Theatre providing free Medical care.
Telemedicine and screening for Rheumatic heart disease.
Mobile Medical Unit.
Community based preventive, promotive and rehabilitative programmes through local health workers.
Sickle cell anaemia research and screening work
Training programme for Dais, health workers and house surgeons.
Control/eradication of Leprosy, Tuberculosis, Epilepsy, Blindness, Cancer; Mental health, Dental health and Community Based Rehabilitation Programme.
Nutrition, Safe drinking water & Sanitation.
Traditional Medicines & Revitalization of Local Health Traditions.
Tribal Auxiliary Nurse Midwife (ANM) programme.
The VGKK was founded by Dr. H Sudarshan in 1981. VGKK believes in empowering tribal societies and achieving sustainable development through health, education, livelihood security and biodiversity conservation keeping their core culture intact. Health care, specifically curative medical care, has been chief entry point of VGKK into the Soliga community. Even in this regard, it was a hard struggle to gain acceptance.
The Tribal Auxillary Nurse Midwife (ANM) program takes place in the BR Hills area of Karnataka. In collaboration with Karuna Trust, VGKK trained 16 girls from the tribal communities in reproductive and child health. After a 1 year training program, the ANMs are posted in the sub-centers and provide services to the Soliga tribe, numbering around 20,000. This model allows for expansion of coverage as well as empowerment opportunities for the women serving as ANMs.
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