Chidbhavanandha Rural Education & The Rural Health Centre – Veerapandi
Community Initiatives
Chidbhavanandha Rural Education & The Rural Health Centre – Veerapandi
G.Kuppuswamy Naidu Memorial Hospital had started a Rural Health Centre at the village Veerapandi, off Mettupalayam Road on 5 th May’1995. This rural health center was started to provide comprehensive health care for the villagers of Selvapuram, which is about 4 km off the main road and also to provide medical consultation and treatment for the surrounding villages. The trust had selected this place, because, inspite of being close to the city like Coimbatore, this village was totally isolated from civilization even without a road or bus service.
The centre's was started to provide the following medical services;
- Regular treatment
- Health education
- Antenatal & Postnatal check ups
- Immunisation
- Maternal and child health care
- Family welfare programmes
- AIDS awareness
- Nutrition programmes
- Sanitation
- Cancer screening programmes
- Free eye camps
- Free cardiac consultation
- Diabetic Clinic
- Physiotherapy
- Dental Care
- Tobacco cessation Clinic every week
- Free eye & cardiac surgery for deserving patients
- Pulse Polio Immunisation programme in co-ordination with nearby Primary Health centre
- Health Education Programme
- Health Camps
- School Health Services
- Pulse Polio Immunisation
- Community Oncology
- Selvapuram Sub – Centre
- Lab services
- Free services
Health Education Programme
The Center has initiated teaching programs for school children, parents, nursing mothers, volunteers & youth from the village, facts about nutrition, sanitation, immunization, hygiene, first aid, family planning methods etc., through the means of charts, placards, posters, lectures, workshops, discussions, film shows, songs, folk dances and dramas.
The rural center team members conduct competitions and distribute prizes to encourage them. Though health education is a hard task and time consuming, the Center felt the need to give more importance to health education. With proper health education most of the diseases are preventable. Based on facts practising preventive medicine is more economical than regular treatment. The Centre has also identified and extends healthcare to the surrounding villages which need basic medical facilities, health education, preventive medicine and a good referral system.
