Reducing Health Risk of the Excluded Some Innovative Practices
Jan 03, 2016
Reducing Health Risk of the Excluded
Some Innovative Practices
Meeting Health Challenges of Excluded: POPI’s Experience
Presented by
Murshed Alam SarkerExecutive DirectorPeople’s Oriented Program Implementation
(POPI)
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POPI’s Health Initiatives: Major Areas of Focus
Access to Quality Health ServicesMother, Child and Adolescent HealthHealth AwarenessCapacity Building and Social Accountability
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What Do We Do: Innovative PracticesAccess to Quality Health ServicesWater AmbulanceFloating Health ClinicHealth Camp at Community LevelEye Camp at Community LevelHealth Card for disadvantagedChar Sasthya KendraMicro Health InsuranceSatellite Clinics in Floating VesselsFree Treatment and Assistive Device for
DisabledAdvocacy
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What Do We Do: Innovative PracticesMother, Child and Adolescent
HealthInitial health check-up of working
childrenPeriodical health check-up of
students Half-yearly health camp for childrenEmergency referral linkageFirst aid support for child worker at
the factoriesMother to mother support groupMaternal, neonetal and child survival
services Songlap centre for adolescent girls
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What Do We Do: Innovative Practices
Health AwarenessDevelopment of Community Health
Volunteer (CHV)Health awareness/education sessionsContextually appropriate awareness events Collaboration between POPI and communityHealth fair for community at largeMulti-lingual (ethnic) dissemination of
health information
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What Do We Do: Innovative Practices
Capacity Building and Social Accountability
Social review of health governanceCoordination among health department,
LGBs and concerned stakeholdersSupport to the field level health workersProblem identification and micro planningWard and union level MNCS planning
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Water Ambulance of POPI
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Floating Health Clinic of POPI
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Health Session on a Floating Health Clinic
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Health Check-up of a new born baby
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Regular Health Check-up of Learners
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Major Achievements of POPI
Around 1.5 million patients of hard to reach areas received health care support
More than 500 trained birth attendants provided maternity care support
295189 people came under the purview of maternal, neonetal and child survival services
Health Education Service to 2.3 million people
Reproductive Health care support to 50000 people
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