Community Health

Objectives

To create awareness
Mobilize the villagers and help them to improve their health status.
To assist and train animators to attend to the basic health needs of the villages
To formulate and undertake developmental projects on health education
To collaborate with Government and other secular organizations to promote health and improve education
To continue our effort in the villages in health promotion and prevention of diseases
To help them to grow and to develop their own resources for a healthy living

Achievements In Public Health

Formation of Health sanitation and Nutrition committee with the Village Headman as the Chairman.
The first hospital to detect and notify the Government during the meningococcal meningitis & cholera outbreaks
The first hospital to detect and notify the Government about the suspected Japanese encephalitis cases in the state.

Who cannot donate blood?

As blood is a potential source of many serious and even fatal infections, the selection criteria is very strict. Also, in some cases, donation of blood may endanger the life of the donor himself/herself. To that end it is strongly suggested that people suffering from the following conditions refrain from donating blood.

Cancer
Bleeding disorders
Seizures
HIV positives or people living with HIV/ AIDS
Sexually Transmitted diseases e.g. syphilis HIV
Hepatitis B & C positives at any point in their life
Intra-venous drug abusers

New Facilities

Tuberculosis Lab

RNTCP (Govt. Of India) certified Line Probe Assay (LPA) Tuberculosis Culture & Drug Sensitivity Laboratory was inaugurated on 15th March 2013. LPA is a testing method in which we peer directly into the DNA of the bacillus causing tuberculosis and ascertain whether it is sensitive OR resistant OR partially resistant to currently available therapy.

It is now the official Culture & Drug Susceptibility Laboratory for LPA in the State, being the second such centre in the whole of the north east. In addition, it is planning to scale up its activities by being the State referral centre for follow up cultures in patients under treatment for Multi Drug Resistant TB.

Vitek Ms

It is a mass spectrometer (only the third in the country), used for identification of bacteria, including mycobacteria and fungi that cause infections in humans. It takes just minutes to identify the organisms as opposed to hours to days by conventional methods. This leads to faster initiation of treatment in patients.