Community Based Rehabilitation
project
SMK’s
activities encompass help to all differently abled viz. physical challenged,
hearing & visually impaired, cerebral palsy, mentally retarded, leprosy affected people and their families
gain access to health, education, livelihood, social , empowerment, acting as a
catalyst by creating and assisting them in working with other organizations to
bring hope and purpose in their lives.
Hence,
one of SMK’s key goals is also to raise awareness levels among all sections of
society, with a view to ending social and economic discrimination against
leprosy affected people and disability everywhere.
SMK collected first hand information in Jawahar Nagar
to Idgah area on Delhi
road, leprosy colonies, villages of Jamwaramgarh tehsil.
The Operational project area
to be covered in 50 villages of Jamwaramgarh, Urban slums from Jawahar Nagar to
Delhi road in
Jaipur on both road side with covering of total general population around
1,55,000
Including Target of
3000 (People Living with Disability) PLDs, leprosy affected person their dependents, with special
as a deal with lot of social stigma. The proposed project will be first time
initiative at the district for working with persons with disabilities including
leprosy. It tends to promote rehabilitative services in Jaipur, aims to raise
health awareness as one of the primary health care. The main approach of this
project is to prevent further disability and generate awareness about the
disabled persons. This work will be carried through Panchayat representatives,
health functionaries, school and volunteers.
The project would coordinate with
stakeholders to bring them to the villages/beneficiaries to provide services
relating to rehabilitation.
To ensure people's participation and sustainability to the project all the villages will have slum/village people committee, who will regularly involvement in project activities and give timely inputs for its betterment.
Gandhi Kusthashram Jodhpur having
a dispensary. These inmates include leprosy affected people and their family
members. This centre has a double story building, almost having separate
quarters for each family. Complete medical and educational services are
provided here to the inmates by SMK.
MEDICAL SUPPORT PROGRAME
A good network of well-equipped
dispensaries and clinical laboratories are being run by SMK at Galta, Jhotwara,
Ajmer , Ramgarh and Jodhpur . These dispensaries have professionally
sound and competent doctors and paramedical staff to cater to their needs.
These medical units monitor the patients regularly for any re-occurrence of the
symptoms of leprosy disease and educate them in maintaining the required
hygienic conditions. Besides this scheduled job, these dispensaries offer free
general medical facilities including free medicines to the village surrounding
them.
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