Tansa Valley, India—PRASAD Chikitsa’s Community Health Programs are effective because they are comprehensive and far-reaching. Our community medical programs meet people’s immediate needs, while the preventative initiatives are achieving long-term, sustainable improvements in the welfare of individuals, families and communities.
PRASAD Chikitsa’s approach to Community Health Care is holistic; we respond to people’s physical and mental health concerns and to the social and environmental conditions that contribute to those concerns.
PRASAD’s Family Health Center is home to many of those initiatives, including the Reproductive and Child Health Program, Accredited Social Health Activist Training Program and the School Health and Nutrition programs.
In 2009, in response to growing demand for services, we expanded the center and upgraded the facilities, thanks to PRASAD’s donors and a grant from Abbot Laboratories in partnership with Direct Relief International.
Reproductive and Child Health (RCH)
The Reproductive and Child Health Program was launched in 2002 in order to instruct pregnant women on the importance of coming for regular prenatal checkups, so that the staff there can detect and manage any serious complications. The second objective is to teach expectant mothers about childcare, nutrition, hygiene and other topics, so that they have healthy pregnancies and safe deliveries. Learn more…
Accredited Social Health Activist Training
The PRASAD Chikitsa Reproductive Child Health program was established in 2002, and Midwife or Dai Training has always been a key component. As of 2011, we expanded the curriculum into training for Accredited Social Health Activists or ASHAs. Learn more…
School Health
PRASAD Chikitsa believes that healthy children grow up to be healthy adults, and so PRASAD emphasizes education and prevention just as much as treatment. Every six months, PRASAD conducts health appraisals at schools in 11 villages in the Tansa Valley. The appraisal includes a physical examination, a dental checkup and distribution of medicine and vitamins. Learn more…
Nutrition
According to UNICEF, one third of the world’s malnourished children live in India. Lack of nutrition retards the children’s growth, and makes them susceptible to disease — about 50 percent of all childhood deaths have been attributed to malnutrition. PRASAD Chikitsa has responded with two initiatives: the Meals Program, which serves children, and the Milk Project, which serves children and expectant and nursing mothers. Learn more…
