4. Health Problems In Disaster
Infectious
Acute Chronic
ARI/ TB
Pneumonia/ Leprosy
Otitis Filaria Malaria
Kala Azar
Measles HIV Diarrhoea
Skin
Non Infectious
Acute Chronic
Snakebite BP
Injury Diabetes
Drowning Asthma
RCH Blindness
Maternal Deafness
Neonatal Mental
Malnutrition Congenital / Cancer
5. Good Practices
from the field
Local Life Jackets made by SHGs
During the CBDP programme in Uttar Dinajpur /
Malda Self Help Groups learnt how to make cost
effective life jackets using commonly available
materials.
6.
7. Rural Ambulance converted Van
Rickshaws
Modified Van Rickshaw in 24 Parganas Sunderban area- use of van-
rickshaw as a rural ambulance that could save hundreds of lives by
only being able to trans-port patients from the house-holds to the local
clinic, in the specific region of rural West Bengal
12. Fever Treatment Depots
Dooars- Indian Tea Association has set up
Malaria clinics in the remote gardens. These are
a support to the Fever Treatment Depots where
ICDS workers keep Malaria medicines and can
take blood for tests
13. First-sustain rapid diagnostic kits, ACT and
Community-
funds.
Outreach-
Reach sufficient coverage (80%) of bed nets,
Clinic/ Facility- particularly to BPL
Second, orient MO in PHC -early referral of
malaria with complications.
Third, community awareness to seek prompt
treatment.
Fourth, spray teams must catch up DDT
spraying
Fifth, orient private practitioners -appropriate
anti-malarials, management of severe malaria
and early referral.
PPP with tea gardens
Risk factors for malaria deaths in Jalpaiguri district, West Bengal, India:
evidence for further action
J Sarkar et al Malar J. 2009; 8: 133. Published online 2009 June 16
Notas do Editor
Boat Clinics Districts- Government of India list Blocks- Health on the March (Literacy, CBR) Backward Villages- Womens Literacy, Womens Participation in Income Generating Activities Urban Slums
High Level Expert Group (Planning Commission)- Universal Health Care Access Oct 2010 World Health Report 2010: Health Systems Financing, the path to universal coverage National Commission for Macroeconomics and Health 2005 Peoples Health Assembly Savar (Dhaka) Health for All 2000
Diarrhoea Treatment- 9.2 % by Government WB - 65.7 % by private No Treatment outside 25.6% ARI Treatment- 12.9 % by Government WB - 67 % by private No Treatment outside 22.2%