Screening of Patients

Patient being screened for Early Leprosy at Dasasamudaram Clinic on 26 Jan. 2011-D. Joseph

Screening of Patients

144 Patients were screened in both centres for Early Leprosy and Tuberculosis from 14 clinics. 2 Leprosy patients and 6 Tuberculosis patients for review were also screened and advised. 5 Patients for Early Leprosy and 35 patients for suspected Tuberculosis were screened in the Lab. Medicines for 224 patients issued on doctor's prescriptions from 12 clinics. 

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Reistration of Patients

Patients registration at Dasasamudaram Clinic on 26 Jan. 2011- J. Elizabeth & A. Malliga

Registration of Patients

Patients were registered from 55 Villages at Dasasamudaram and Navapatty Centres. Most patients were over 60 years male and children. Rehabilitated Leprosy and Tuberculosis patients were given saris, dhotis and diet on 24 Jan.

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Medical Consultations

We had many aged men for consultations in Orthopaedic and Cardiac problems this month, January 

-Dr. Chinnaiyan

Medical Consultations

224 Consultations were made in January from 12 Clinics at Dasasamudaram and Navapatty. 4 Early Leprosy was diagnosed on 29 Jan. from 43 children examined at Mettur. 5 Patients are under treatment and two of them were reviewed this month. 14 Tuberculosis patients, 9 Hypertensives and 9 Diabetic patients are regularly treated and followed up. 6 out of 14 Tuberculosis patients attended follow-up clinics this month. 30 patients are treated for Orthopaedic problems, mostly middle aged and old people.

Case Finding:Early Leprosy

Early Leprosy Review

Tuberculosis Review

General & Skin

Orthopaedics

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Remote Access

"We travel quite a distance before we have access to a Health Institution, but I do not need it now". Says this old roof builder to Pilavendran, Health Worker at Kurandipudur, Mettur on 06 January, 2011.

Remote Access

I see expressions of dismay and indifference. But they are expressions with life and scope. It shows only when people like us visit them in their homes and work spot. They do not see the difference in facilities available to them. All they know is there are some places where you can approach to get better in your health. 

These remote villages in Mettur are far better than what I had seen ten years ago. Yet they are deficient. Some of them have no schools or medical facilities.

Two such villages were chosen this month for our visit. Kurandipudur and Perumpallam. Their occupation fostering river banks of cauvery, tending to farms and fishing. While one village could sense the need for education and health the other had not either of them. 

Visits such as these are far reaching and educative. It is a place where knowledge of comfort comes to stand still. It is a place where living supersedes pain.

Kurandipudur-Mettur (06 Jan.2011): Residential, Work and Public places;

Perumpallam-Mettur (27 Jan. 2011):Residential, Work & Public Places

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2 Villages-101 Houses Visited-2 Farm Sites Visited-4 Public Sites Visited-128 Population Reached of 8 Locations in all-5 Hours