{"id":1489,"date":"2022-06-16T22:46:45","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T22:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skychildrenonlus.org\/?page_id=1489"},"modified":"2024-05-14T10:18:25","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T10:18:25","slug":"cliniche-itineranti-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/skychildren.org\/en\/cliniche-itineranti-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Traveling clinics \u2013 Health care in slums and rural villages"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Villages in the countryside are several hours' drive from Calcutta hospitals and children often receive medical treatment only when their illnesses are too advanced. In shantytowns, such as the slum of Chitpur, the problem is not the distance, but often the ignorance of the symptoms, the chronic lack of attention to children's health and the substantial non-existence of free public health services for the poor.<\/p><\/div>

For this reason, years ago we started the \"Itinerant Clinics\" project, which takes the form of a long and intense day every week or every month, during which temporary clinics and a dispensary are set up:<\/strong>\u00a0the inhabitants of villages and slums can thus access extremely important\u00a0basic medical care<\/strong> such as general medical examinations,\u00a0vaccination prophylaxis,<\/strong>\u00a0drug therapies, vitamin administration, nutritious meals<\/strong>\u00a0for newborns and future mothers.<\/p>

We deal in particular with the needs of\u00a0children, pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers,<\/strong>adolescents and the elderly. Importance is given to improving the general conditions of patients, who are given treatment and medicines free of charge.\u00a0For each patient visited, a form is prepared which indicates the medical data, the medicines prescribed and the state of health. The card is updated at each visit.<\/span><\/div><\/div>

The aim is to provide quality care, diagnosis and free medicines to rural and slum dwellers, with necessary\u00a0referrals to local government hospitals<\/strong> for any more in-depth medical investigations and treatments. In case the patient is not admitted to the government hospital, he will be admitted to Hope hospital.<\/b><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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The project includes a significant component of \"counseling\" by qualified social workers.\u00a0<\/strong>The entire community is contacted and involved in subsequent individual and collective meetings in which we try to promote knowledge regarding diseases, to carry out prevention, to help these people access government health services (a network has been established with state hospitals , where the most serious or chronic patients are sent) and, in general, to encourage an improvement in hygienic-sanitary conditions and the use of drinking water. A fundamental activity is the \"check\"<\/strong>\u00a0that the operators carry out, family by family, after the clinic day, to verify that the medicines delivered are not resold.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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In the last 12 months we have reached and treated 8.416 patients, <\/b>including 2.715 children<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

We carried out<\/span> <\/b><\/span><\/span>150 days<\/b> of clinics (58 in rural villages, 92 in slums)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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