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THE HEALTH CAMP REPORT

Chapagaun ,ward no 3(2069/02/28)

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:

ACAS is grateful to doctors from KMC Hospital and Patan Hospital making this project successful. We would like to express our sincere thanks to our teacher Mrs. Kabita Pandey,all of the local youth club members,VDC members,PHCRC group and FCHV the entire community for their active discussion and suggestion for conduction of the health camp.

We have been able to expand our working areas and obtain the optimum success on the project goals because of the involvement and all round support of the entire team.

We would also like to extend our sincere appreciation to Dr.Anil, Dr.Ambesh and Dr.Mohan for their generous voluntarily support.

We would also like to personally thank Mr Bijaya Desar, member of Jyotidaya youth club who helped to organize the event, for providing space and managing the camp, and all the medicine suppliers forimmediate supply of the medicine during the event.

Finally, we would like to express our deep gratitude to everyone involved in this program. We appreciate the precious time, valuable suggestions and hard work before and during the implementation of this Health Camp.

We look forward for your continuous help, feedback, cooperation, assistance and solidarity to our activities in coming days as well.

-PBBN 1^st year (ACAS)students

Roll no 31-40

BACKGROUND:

Beneath the curriculum of PBN 1^st year,Community health Nursing Practicum,the community surveryed was conducted at Chapagaun VDC,Ward no 3 during the month of the Jestha ,2069.Within the area,200 houses were surveryed whilst data of 950 peoples were collected.Corresponding to the curriculum the further data presentaion was done and micro health project “Free Health Camp” was done.

Out of 200 houses surveyed,the differential datas of the local community including their health status,their knowledge level were aggregrated. Subsequently, after the presentation and discussion of the data among the community people , VDC personnel,PHCRC group,and FCHV of the community,the awareness level and disease related concern were determined;which shows that there is minimal health practices inspite of high morbidity rate and easy accesiblity to health centers.Thus,for enhancing the awareness and screening about the health status of the local people,the microhealth project related health action focused on the “Free health Camp” and the improvement of the health status of the people.

OBJECTIVES:

Overall Objectives:

Ø To provide the health care to the community members through the health camp

Specific Objectives:

Ø To identify the health problems of the community

Ø To create the health awarenwess to the community people

Ø To promote the positive health of the community people

Ø To provide on site free medical treatment

Ø To provide counselling on the prescribe drugs

Ø To provide necessary advices required for change on dietary habit and life style modification

Ø To identify the drugs used pattern of the prescribed drugs

Ø To provide oppurtunity to experienced leadership and increased level of responsibility ,creativity and independence to the students

Ø To early diagnosis and provide follow up disease and default

RESOURCES:

1. Men:

§ VDC members

§ Jyotidaya club members

§ Community people

§ FCHV(Mrs.Regina Desar)

§ 3 volunteer doctors(Dr.Anil,Dr.Ambesh,Dr.Mohan)

§ BN 1^st year students, ACAS (Samikshya, Samjhana, Sarita,Sapana, Shanta, Srijana, Smriti, Subjana, Sumitra, Yojana)

2. Money:

§ Financer (BN 1^st year students)

3. Materials:

§ Tents

§ Banners

§ Tables

§ Chairs

§ BP instruments

§ Weighing machine

§ Medicines

§ Table sheets

§ Stationaries (Prescription forms,Continuation sheets,Registration book and Record book)

4. Venue and time:

§ venue: Wokhatol, Dabali,Chapagaun Ward no 3 Lalitpur

§ Date and time:2069/02/28, Sunday……9am to 1pm

METHODOLOGY:

During the health camp programme, the following methodology were used:

1. Team:

· BN 1st year students(Roll no 31-40)

· 3 volunteer doctors

2. Screening:

· Registration of the client’s name

· Monitoring blood pressure and record

· Measuring weight and record

· Monitor temperature as per needed

3. Check up:

· General physical check up was done as per need of the community people

4. Referral:

· The client’s required for the further treatment were referred to high center including patan hospital

5. Counselling:

· Counselling related to disease condition and the medicine prescribed was done

6. Medicine dispensary and recording:

· Medicine distribution was done according to the doctor’s prescriptions.

ACTIVITIES:

1. First of all,the discussion was done with the Jyotidaya youth Club member(Bijaya Desar),FCHV(Rejina Desar),VDC personnels,PHCRC and the local community,then we concluded for our micro health project on “Free health Camp”.

2. Then ,the appropriate place and time was fixed for the health camp,i.e.Jyotidaya club,Wokhatole,Dabali at 2069/2/28

3. Invitation about the conduction of health camp was given to the community people in coordination with the youth club via pamphlets,formal invitations (letters) and informal verbal invitaions by home visitings.

4. The essential materials were collected and preparations were done.

5. The health camp was sucessfully conducted.

HEALTH CAMP DATA:

In total 116 Nepalese people participated in the survey. There were 43 male and 73 female. Altogether, majority of people had some kind of health problem in terms of gastritis, joint pain, allergy, anaemia and other diseases( high blood pressure, asthma, fever, diarrhea, dermatitis, conjuctivitis).

LESSON LEARNT AND CHALLENGES:

Lesson learnt:

In previous health related activities ,the local community people tend to less interestes and participative, thus we wanted to take a different approach by organising this camp. We first found out about their family background and helped make them understand the importance of their own health before asking for their problems and then it was easy for us to understand their actual problems and recommend suitable treatment for them.

The screening, general check up accompanied by the medicine distribution and the counselling was the most effective part of the camp.We hope to focus more on this area in the future.

Many of the people were curious about their health condition so knowledge about their health sate and medications as prescriptions they were given.

Surprisingly we found really good participations of the beneficiaries and admirations among the community.

Challenges:

Before we began,we realized that we wouldn’t able to satisfy ever person in the community no matter how hard we tried. It was not easy to adjust and work in diversified community environment. The adequate supply of all the medicines and the materials,timely commencement of the health camp,disputes related to medicine distribution, competition among the villagers and other external factors were sometimes difficult to manage during the program.

Somewhere people were not helpful even for sharing the information about the health program, though it was solely for the benefit of their own community.

Overall it was a successful camp and we didn’t experience many huge challenges during the camp.

EVALUATION:

This health camp benifictes 116 beneficiaries;in which they were properly instructed about the knowledge about the health status,problems identified,and further awareness and counselling related to their heath problems.Referral was done to the higher center as per requirement for the additional investigations and treatment. Free medicine distribution was done to the client as doctor’s prescriptions.

The responses of the community people was quite assertive,they were very satisfied of this health camp for getting the accessible health facilities in the own locality and in effective management.