Guniea worm infection was avery prevalent alent amongst the tidal community in the district PEDO undertook te task to completely eradicate the disease, About 5,000 cases were treated during various surgery camps in 175 severely affected villages, which lead to complete eradication of the ailment, Besides this, PEDO also spearheaded a campaign for safe drinking water, About 550 hand pumps were installed for the tribal community to avail drinking water besides 28 wells 166 existing wells were converted into sanitary wells.
Project aimed at providing cheap, easily accessible and good quality health services to the poor tribal communities. There were many instances of deaths due to non- availability of proper health services in the remote rural areas. Besides that, there have been many instances where the illiterate and ill-informed community is over charged for the health services or provided wrong treatment. A customized Health Insurance program, regular health camps and a network of hospitals was the three aspects on which PEDO decided to work. Micro- health Insurance Program was launched in 2012 with a vision to provide cheap and quality health program to the remotely located tribal communities. Currently the program covers around 25,000 individuals in Dungarpur and is envisaged to cover the families of every SHG member. The program is presently community managed and financed, and therefore self sustainable. A cover of Rs.12,000 is provided to the insured person after paying a premium of Rs.120 per year. The patients can approach the network of hospitals as well as any private hospitals. The charges of services, at the network hospitals are fixed and are lower than the market prices. There is also a 24 by 7 health-helpline cum guidance centre for the members of insurance program. This centre receives 200 to 250 calls every month. Till now around 200 claim settlement cases has been dealt by the claim committees, which are formed by the community. General and special health camps are also organized regularly in rural areas, where consultation is provided at a very nominal cost and cheap (and sometimes free) medicines are provided. Special camps are also organized at a central location for ailments related to eyes, gynecology, dental problems, orthopedics etc. These camps benefit deals with around 2,500 patients per year.
Program aimed to create awareness about nutritional needs of young children and adolescent girls among the tribal communities of Dungarpur. SHG members and other volunteers identified the severely malnourished children and got these children linked to the malnourishment treatment centers established by the government. Till now 43 such children have been inked to the Malnourishment Treatment Center in Dungarpur. Nutritional needs and other requirements of young children was shared with the parents through the microfinance network. Adolescent girls were informed about their nutritional needs and different problems that they face with age. Government support was utilised through school administration and Anganwadi Workers,
Under the joint initiative of IPE Global and PEDO, the RajPusht project started in November, 2020 in all the 10 Administrative blocks of district Dungarpur.
One in three newborns in Rajasthan are underweight, majority of them eventually suffer from wasting, that is, low weight relative to their height. These problems stem from poor maternal nutrition and improper child-feeding practices.
To reduce the prevalence of low birth weight and wasting among children, RajPusht is working with the Government of Rajasthan to:
• Provide direct benefit transfer (DBT) to enable pregnant and lactating women to buy nutritious food for themselves by strengthening two cash transfer schemes: Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana (PMMVY) and the Indira Gandhi Matritva Poshan Yojana (IGMPY)
• Create an enabling environment to prioritise maternal nutrition through holistic Social & Behaviour Change Communication interventions (https://rajpusht.in/).
· Ensure the transfer of Direct benefits to intended mothers for nutrition
· Motivate mothers to include locally available nutritional food in their diet
· Changes in the traditional perceptions of the people regarding the practices of raising young children and managing pregnancies
· Making pregnant mothers aware of importance of nutritional diets
· To motivate the pregnant mothers for periodic health check-ups
· Awareness regarding mother's milk for infants
· Awareness about vaccination
During the Covid-19 Pandemic PEDO widely supported the tribal community by carrying out various relief works. We converted our training centre facility into a covid isolation ward. We provided ration packs to the migrant workers who were passing through the district’s major highways.
We also provided relief materials (ration and hygiene kits) to about 14,500 extremely vulnerable families, who have no sources of livelihood to survive the lockdowns. Our health helpline number also provided instructions to the community in terms of precautions and treatments.
PEDO is currently working by providing necessary information and facilitation regarding precautions from Covid and the importance of vaccination. And we are also working in 350 villages for making sure that vaccination is done for every eligible individual, this will cover about 3,50,000 population. We are also providing about 2,00,000 face masks to all the students, teachers, Police personnel, and rural health staff.
We have also provided checkup kits (which included oximeters, thermometers, face shields, masks, etc.) to the 3700 rural health workers, GNM, ANM, and Asha workers, in the district. PEDO also provided 10 oxygen Concentrators to two of the community health centres. We have also arranged for a diesel generator for the Genji CHC.
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