Medical Care and EmergencyCan We Reduce Health Risks?

Hugli

Barddhaman

Murshidabad

Haora

Nadia

Kolkata

Darjiling

Maldah

Uttar Dinajpur

Dakshin Dinajpur

Jalpaiguri

Koch Bihar

BankuraPuruliya

Birbhum

Medinipur

North Twenty Four Parganas

South Twenty Four Parganas

Risk

North Bengal

Tea Gardens

Char/ Islands

Paschimanchal

Geographic

Vulnerable

Health Problems In Disaster Infectious

Acute Chronic ARI/ TBPneumonia/ LeprosyOtitis Filaria Malaria

Kala AzarMeasles HIV Diarrhoea

Skin

Non Infectious Acute ChronicSnakebite BPInjury DiabetesDrowning Asthma

Blindness Deafness

Mental Congenital / Cancer

RCHMaternal NeonatalMalnutrition

Good Practices from the field

Local Life Jackets made by SHGsDuring the CBDP programme in Uttar Dinajpur / Malda Self Help Groups learnt how to make cost effective life jackets using commonly available

materials.

Rural Ambulance converted Van Rickshaws

Modified Van Rickshaw in 24 Parganas Sunderban area- use of van-rickshaw as a rural ambulance that could save hundreds of lives by

only being able to trans port patients from the house holds to the local clinic, in the specific region of rural West Bengal

Boat Ambulance/ Clinic

Post Aila Water Collection

ORT Corners

Outreach

Fever Treatment Depots

Dooars- Indian Tea Association has set up Malaria clinics in the remote gardens. These are a support to the Fever Treatment Depots where ICDS workers keep Malaria medicines and can take blood for tests

First-sustain rapid diagnostic kits, ACT and funds.

Reach sufficient coverage (80%) of bed nets, particularly to BPL

Second, orient MO in PHC -early referral of malaria with complications.

Third, community awareness to seek prompt treatment.

Fourth, spray teams must catch up DDT spraying

Fifth, orient private practitioners -appropriate anti-malarials, management of severe malaria and early referral.

PPP with tea gardens

Risk factors for malaria deaths in Jalpaiguri district, West Bengal, India: evidence for further actionJ Sarkar et al Malar J. 2009; 8: 133. Published online 2009 June 16

Community-

Outreach-

Clinic/ Facility-