Health
One who has Health, has Hope And One has Hope, has Everything
One who has Health, has Hope And One has Hope, has Everything
Krr foundation is working with most marginal communities to address key health challenges and improve their health status such as migrant workers, prison inmates, and women at high risk for cancer.
Krr foundation works on Cancer Awareness and prevention among vulnerable and high risk population
"TB Awareness Campaign: Together We Can End TB" is being initiated in Gurugram Municipal Corporation by Krr Foundation with support from Janssen, Pharmaceutical division of Johnson and Johnson private limited.
Information, Education and Communication (IEC) activities are being conducted for improvement in early identification of TB symptomatic and referrals from community aiding in early case detection, communication for treatment adherence; combating stigma and discrimination. Following are the IEC activities conducted for Comprehensive TB Awareness Campaign in Nagpur Municipal Corporation for a month in line with Government of India's "TB Harega Desh Jitega" Campaign featuring Amitabh Bachchan as ambassador,
The cell has also extended at some source villages. The Gram Panchayats at source level are actively engaged with the Cell. They have made contractors accountable for paying minimum wages and avoid wages exploitation and harassment at workplace. Few Panchayats have banned few contractors in their villages who had wages exploitation cases against them.
Health care utilization rates among migrants are often found to be poor. To some extent, this can be attributed to migrants feeling alienated from the government health system at temporary destinations and private facilities being too expensive. Migrant populations often cannot access the services/programmes due to their migration status, timings of their work and distance to services. Constantly changing destinations is also a problem.
Krr Foundation has initiated migrant friendly health programmes in Gurugram in terms of mother and child health, Tuberculosis, Malaria and Occupational health.
Migrant's awareness building about health issue and empowerment for utilisation of government health services is major component of the programme. Active involvement of migrants employers (such as construction companies, hotel industry, farmers etc) is key feature of this programme.
Sensitisation of government health providers is also initiated. A formal referral system for utilization of government health services is introduced, which is approved by district health services. A triplicate referral form is developed for migrants, government health services (civil hospital, urban health center etc) and Krr foundation. Migrants are referred to health services by Krr foundation through its trained community leaders. The referral system is getting popular among migrants as it helps them to get direct treatment from doctor without much discussion, as the medical history and related details are provided in the form. The backside of form also contains contact information of all government health services; the referral service provides increased access levels to health care for migrants, and it also helps for increased awareness level to government health system.
Private agencies such as Rotary clubs local medical colleges, are also important stakeholder of this programme.
Krr foundation had intervention with the jail inmates both at male and female ward at central jail, Gurgaon during 2002-03. Project is designed to address and meet the health needs of jail inmates specially focused on HIV/AIDS, STDs and socio-physiological health. The project was supported by Action Aid, UK and is finished in 2003.
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