Sanakalp Team has taken initiative to:
- Help those needy people who are not able to buy basic Corona medicine.
- Help those needy who are Corona impacted and need food materials
- Provide mask, sanitizer, gloves, basic medicines to Swasth Center at villages.
Activity done on 3rd July 2021
Subject: – Report of visit at SAPHALE primary health center.
Today Hemant, Sagar and Mukesh [Team Sankalp] visited to Saphale PHC [ Primary Health Center] to donate sterile and non-sterile gloves, N 95 masks, bottles of sanitizers etc. a material worth around Rs. 11000/- approximately.
However, more importantly team wanted to understand the ground level situation and requirement in detail at PHC.
Our Sankalp-Foundation has a primary focus on education of a deprived section of society, but in current situation of pandemic where health has become a issue of paramount importance, Sanakalp-Foundation wanted to assist to people from the society, especially to underprivileged who doesn’t have easy access to primary health care the way urban people has.
And under the same mission team went and met Chief of PHC Saphale, Dr. Ranadive.
Dr. Ranadive is a very cooperative and ground to earth person. Despite being busy in his personal schedule of administrating of whole facility, he took out a time to show the whole facility at current level, including the building of the PHC, a lab, a medicine store, OPD ward, delivery section, general ward etc. He introduced team, with other doctor and staff at PHC.
Then he discussed with team, about current state of PHC at length.
Under Saphale PHC, there is a population of 58100 people.
There is one ASHA [Accredited Social Health Activist] worker approximately per 1000 of population.
There are 57 ASHA workers at PHC at this time and one more will be recruited in near future.
Primary job of Asha workers is to visit each of the household in given village and expected to create awareness on health and its social determinants and mobilize the community towards local health planning and increased utilization and accountability of the existing health services.
Moreover, ASHA workers are expected to identify the cases of delivery and bring those cases to health center for institutional delivery which is much more safe and secure.
Asha workers does not have fix monthly remuneration. However, they are our first level of health activist at ground.
In current situation of pandemic, they visit each of the household with or without oximeter and temperature checking guns to identify potential COVID-19 patients.
Following is the statistics team got to know:
Villages: 30
Population: 57000 [current is 58100]
ASHA workers: 57
BLOCK Facilitator: 05 [Block facilitator is expected to manage certain number of ASHA workers]
TOTAL STAFF at PHC: 32
Active Thermal Guns: 18
Active Oximeter: 16
Covid-19 Positive rate at PHC lab: 15%
Number of patients from April-21 to as on date: 685 [ 31 mortality]
Nearby Corona Care Center is at 1 K.M approximately. Mr. Harshad Patel is a store-keeper at C.C.C.
Once patients are identified after lab tests, they are either asked to be home quarantined or to be admitted at appropriate facility.
If patient who are home quarantined, has an oxygen level below 94-93, they are asked to admit wherever beds are available.
Currently PHC has one Oxygen flow meter which is must at delivery room for newborn babies and so cannot be used for COVID-19 patients.
There are certain requirements we have listed below based on discussion with Dr. Ranadive and categorized as recurrent and permanent.
Permanent Requirement.
Oxygen flow meter / Oxygen concentrator.
PPE kit
Recurring requirement.
N-95 Face masks
Bottles of Sanitizers
Sterile gloves
Non-sterile gloves
Hair Caps.
Dr. Ranadive suggested that recurring requirements are more important to have undisturbed services in healthcare center.
With such fruitful discussion team expressed gratitude towards staff and Dr Ranadive for their relentless work at PHC and left with promise to return with more assistance possible in near future.