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| Health Programme |
| Our general clinics treat 70,000
patients annually and deals with about 250 outpatients
every day from the surrounding villages. We have
a good supply of medicines and our own clinical
laboratory. |
| We train women from the remote villages
as Village Health Workers to cope with simple
needs and to run ante-natal clinics. Babies and
toddlers are weighed regularly and if necessary we
supply a specially formulated nutritious flour to
the mother. |
| RTU have also implemented an AIDS
care programme for abandoned children, which began
with one HIV positive foster mother caring for one
HIV positive abandoned child. |
| Achievements to date - |
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General
clinics treat 70,000 patients annually |
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Child immunisation
programmes - Mass immunisations of all children
are done regularly. |
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Dental checks
for children |
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Mother and baby
clinics |
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Leprosy clinics
- We have eradicated leprosy from this area.
From 500 leprosy patients when we came here,
we have reduced the numbers to nil. We still
care for old and handicapped leprosy patients. |
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Polio, the commonest cause of handicaps has
now been eradicated from the area because
of our immunisation programme. |
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Physiotherapy
clinics - especially for children suffering
after the effects of polio. Handicapped children
receive physiotherapy daily, both before and
after orthopaedic surgery. Our aim is to get
them mobile and able to go to school |
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HIV/AIDS
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More than half
the children in our Children's Villages are
orphaned by AIDS, and a growing number are
HIV+ themselves. They receive regular medical
treatment including ART therapy. |
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A Home
Sponsorship programme makes a monthly payment
to over 40 families with a parent suffering
from AIDS to enable them to
continue caring for their children. |
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All
staff working with HIV/AIDS, ie
Foster Mothers, Teachers, Nurses,
and
Health Workers are getting regular HIV/AIDS updates. |
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Statistics are
unreliable, but there is evidence that Tamil
Nadu is the worst-affected state in India, and
the growth rate amongst children is claimed to
be as high as 50%. |
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