YUVAK PRATISHTHAN'S MONTHLY NEWSLETTER

Regular activities of Yuvak Pratishthan for the month of March '08 are given hereunder:

JEEVAN AKSHAY (Seva Mobile): In the month of March, 4 camps were held at Ramabai Nagar, Bhandup. 148 patients were checked, guided and provided medicines. They were performed complete health check-up. Table showing the number of patients attended in camps are given as under:

Date	Ramabai Nagar Bhandup
Date	New Patients	Old Patients	Total
5 March 08	06	33	39
12 March 08	08	20	28
19 March 08	14	21	35
26 March 08	14	32	46
TOTAL	42	106	148

MOBILE GENERAL CHECK–UP CAMPS: Regular mobile camps continued daily 4 camps through two mobile vans at different areas of Mumbai suburbs.

96 camps held in the month of February which includes 54 morning and 42 evening camps. 2180 patients were performed complete check-up and given medicines. Click here for date-wise camps details.

We request the citizen of all nearby areas to visit the centre and take benefits of all the medication / health related problems.

SLUM SANITATION – ‘NIRMAL MMR ABHIYAN’: Work-order received for different sites. 'Bhoomi pujan' done and the work started. Regular follow-ups, contacts with City Municipal Offices and local leaders, site identification / survey etc. continue this month.

CENTRE FOR SLUM STUDIES: This month the Centre has arranged Arranged Field visits at Dry Waste Organization Centre Sewri & Nagri Niwara Parishad Goregaon for MAJAS and ANIK Peers ERM Project (MMRDA), where 60 candidates were participated.

Lectures were given as per the details given below: All lectures were conduct at Mazas Depot.

Sr. No.	Subject	Lecturer
1.	Importance of Environment Education	Dr. Medha Somaiya
2.	Spoken English	Mr. Shoaib
3.	Water born dieses	Dr. Urmila Gavande
4.	Fertilizer from Waste	Ms. Belwalkar Madam
5.	Disaster Management	Mr.Ravindra Kudi
6.	Professional courses for Housewives
7.	Interaction with Water Management	Ms. Suprabha Marathe
8.	Environment & Pollution	Mr. Vinay Nikam
9.	Electricity Average Monthly bill, Service quality	Mr.Ashok Chavan (MSEB)
10.	Hemoglobin and Supplementary food for women	Ms. Shubhangi Joshi
11.	Mosquito and awareness of area	Ms. Pooja Sachde
12.	Cause of Fire & Safety	Mr.Subhash Rane (Fire Brigade)
13.	Waste & Wealth with area unity	Ms. Poonam Huddar
14.	Personality development	Mr. Chandrashil Tambe

PALAVI KENDRA : Ante-Natal Care (ANC) of the pregnant women mobilization in Four Administrative Wards of Greater Mumbai; 'A' ward, ‘E’ ward, 'G South' ward, and ‘S’ ward were covered during the month.

Our Out Reach Workers visited families in their respective wards, interacted with them and guided them about the health related problems. They were counselled, guided and given proper guidance on health related matters, HIV & PPTCT Centre, Prevention and Family Planning.

Community meetings were held for Mahila Mandals, Health Posts, Beauty Parlor, Small Industries, Vyayamshala etc. The participants have been informed about Palavi Kendra. IEC material and booklets for awareness distributed among them.

Activities			A Ward	E Ward	G South Ward	S Ward
Family Visited			1659	4804	6161	4490
Counselling	Male		1582	4582	5938	5711
	Female		1719	5069	6192	5127
	Male Children		1315	3503	4456	3725
	Female Children		1288	3557	4434	2964
ANC Found			65	77	62	54
ANC Mobilized			18	05	03	09
STD / STI Cases Registered			-	01	-	-
Agreed for VCTC	Male		-	-	-	-
Agreed for VCTC	Female		-	01	-	-
+ve Delivery			01	08	-	01
HIV +ve Cases Found		Hospital	02	06	01	-
HIV +ve Cases Found		Outside	-	-	-	01
Community Meetings		No.	03	03	04	04
Community Meetings		Participants	62	67	91	110
Follow-up Children			12	72	03	23
CD4			02	09	-	-

Yuvak Pratishthan’s Samarpan Arogya Kendra: In the month of March, the patients visited to the centre and benefited through Allopathic, Homeopathy treatment and for pathological tests are given as under:

Type of Treatment	New patients	Old patients	Total patients visited
Allopathic	258	881	1139
Homeopathy	51	-	51
Pathology	37	-	37
Sonography	07	-	07
Total	353	881	1234

All the patients were treated with proper medication & counseling about their health related problems. Pathological tests were done at very concessional rates.

We would like to inform that the Mulund centre has started X-ray and Sonography facility at very concessional rates. Patients are requested to visit the centre to avail this facility on nominal charges.

JEEVAN AASHA : This month, 80 patients visited our office and registered under Jeevan Aasha. 52 patients in all have received financial assistance this month from different Trusts for different ailments. Others are under process. Category of the patients / cases:

Category	No. of patients visited	Received Financial Assistance
Heart	14	09
Kidney	08	06
Cancer	10	05
Brain	02	01
Others	39	31
Enquiry	07	-
Total	80	52

Besides, we have received more than 300 phone calls for enquiry / assistance during the month.

We express our heartiest gratitude to all the trusts / hospitals / doctors / social activists, for extending their support / help to the poor and needy patients for their surgery / treatment.

We sincerely thanks, appreciate our co-workers for fulfilling their duties, and extending support in these activities.