Health & Nutrition
Creating joyful, empowering education which enhances livelihood options, creating socially and environmentally conscious citizens who are catalysts for change.
At the Uttran Foundation, , we create and empower a strong cadre of community health workers whom we call Uttran Foundation, They serve as important links between community and various public and private health facilities besides providing paramedical aid to the villagers. We also collaborate with the Government and private frontline health personnel including doctors, ASHA workers, Aganwadis workers and ANMs for last mile delivery of health and nutrition services.
OUR IMPACT
PROGRAMMES
Congenital heart disorders if identified on time reduces physical and mental suffering for the victims and their families. We identify and provide complete diagnostic support to children aged 1 to 18 years suffering from a cardiac disorder in our rural communities. Those in need of surgeries are linked to our partner hospitals for end-to-end treatment free of cost.
We have three mobile vans which are fully equipped for diagnostic screening of eye defects by ophthalmologists. We conduct screening, identification and advise on necessary treatments for eye diseases in these vans. Those identified with refractive errors are given spectacles free of cost whereas those diagnosed with cataract are accompanied to our partner hospitals Laxmi Charitable Trust and HV Desai Eye Hospital for free surgery.
Our goal is to ensure an anemia-free geography for which we do preliminary pricking and screening of hemoglobin levels among students. We then link with the Government mechanism to administer right doses to these children and conduct various awareness building programs for students, teachers, and parents so they adapt and influence others in the community on the causes and repercussions of iron deficiency.
We look after cases of low vision among children with special needs and provide for their cost-free treatment. Our field support not only identifies and accompanies them for treatments but also conduct regular follow-ups to overcome any inconsistency as advised in treatment.
Due to not having a healthy body and being in the grip of various serious diseases, there is an economic loss that the normal family goes into poverty and the poor family is unable to access health services. The vulnerable sections of the society, poor Dalit tribals, minorities, exploited widows, divorced, destitute women, elderly children, who are deprived of the mainstream of the society. Very weak financially. The environment around them is also pathetic. Therefore, the people of the disadvantaged section often suffer from various types of diseases. Therefore, the organization stressed the need to bring about behavioral changes within them, which can control health problems to a great extent. Health awareness programs and medical camps were organized by the organization at places like Varanasi, Chadauli, Jaunpur, Mirzapur, etc., in the slums of rural and urban areas of other districts of Purvanchal. In which an appeal was made to the public to adopt cleanliness. Not knowing how to defecate in the open, was told the method of washing hands properly, emphasis was given on keeping the places around us clean. An appeal was made to correct the food and drink, regularly immunize the children, if they fall ill, they should go to the doctor immediately. There was wide participation of the deprived sections in the programs organized by the institution.
