M. Pilavendran, Health Worker at Karunkallur Village with workers at road laying site on 18 November, 2010
Communication occupies an important place in our performance. The importance is to reach out to people and make them aware of an accessible health care and to prevent disability and chest infection.
The Health supervisor and his team of three Health Workers visit residents of villages, primary schools and day care centre’s at Mettur. Usually the visit is followed by a clinic at Navapatty. Duration of such visits is between 10 AM. to 4 PM.
At Omalur, the team approach patients who come to the centre for screening to spread the word in their respective villages. We had already conducted an extensive awareness and screening programme for school children and community in 2008 and 2009. The team approach residents with an introduction of our centre’s and people who are involved. Accessible health care explained and how they could approach it. Early sings in Leprosy, Tuberculosis and their consequences explained to them.
We have had good response from our visits this year and comparatively the case finding in Leprosy is more at Navapatty than at Omalur. Early Leprosy affects good number of women and children. Almost fifty percent of Leprosy detection is at Navapatty from less than ten percent of 2429 consultations so far this year.
Spoken expression is the dominant mode of communication by our health workers. Information about health care accessibility imparted carries an official and occupational content. A message about the cause of disability that combines an emotional content, the effort carries an implication of improving health care and well-being of people in proximity to our health centre's. The activity made on foot and giving room for people to acknowledge a certain time to interact with our health workers.
Pictures on left show D. Joseph, Health Supervisor and M. Pilavendran, Health Worker communicating to residents of Karunkallur Village, Mettur proximal to Acwerk Navapatty Health Centre; on 18 November, 2010.
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