Health Check Up @ JAAGRITI

Dear All,

The health check up camp organised at PROJECT JAAGRITI was a great success today.

1. Total around 40 children were there from both Jaagriti project as well as the ones under SHIKSHA UDAY project of Pragati public school.

2. Proper health record cards have been prepared for each child where detail of every health check up will be recorded. (Sample attached).

3. Height and weight measurements were already taken by the nurse over the week.

4. Detailed health checkup was done by the doctor and records have been maintained. She was shared the following general observations with us:

• Almost all children have worm’s problems and need to be given medicine for the same immediately.
• Some of the children are anaemic.
• There is protein deficiency in most of the children.
• The overall condition of the children was much better than she had expected and as it is the case in villages.

Action Points

-- She has prescribed some medicines and has almost promised to provide those medicines as subsidized rates from where doctors generally get.

-- As soon as we get the medicines we will give the prescribed dosage to the children. This is for both treatment of worms as well as anaemia.

-- For proteins she has suggested to include Chana, Gud and Dalia in the diet of the children. We plan to provide the same regularly to children as far as possible.

-- Also we will be interacting with the parents of the children and sharing all the health details with them and motivates them to improve the diets.

Now the most important observations:

Two children(boys) have been identified to have heart problems. There heart beats are not as it should be and they also have complains of problems while running and chest pain. As per doctors observation there could be problem in the closing of their heart valves.

Action Points

- Our immediate task for this is to talk to the parents of these children and get their ECG done.

- We pray to god that nothing serious comes out of it and all goes fine. Our next steps will depend on the results of the test.

We look forward to work on all the above identified actions and will be conducting another heath check up camp in 3 months from now and we really hope that all the above identified problems will be eradicated by then. The doctor Dr. Pooja is now a regular volunteer doctor for the project.

Thanks

Anchit Goel

Founder and Coordinator- PROJECT JAAGRITI

+91-9818115226