Holy Cross Community Health Development Programme Kottiyam
Holy Cross Community Health Development programme was established in the year 2004 as a registered Society with the aim of organizing Community Health Centers to provide Primary Health Care Services to population groups in Urban and Rural areas. These centers provide learning experiences for the nursing and other students who undergo training in Holy Cross institutions. Rural Health services of Holy Cross Hospital Kottiyam were established with 15 activity centers in the surrounding parishes during the year 1979 and at present they are carried out this program. The logo of the programme is ‘Search, Serve, Support, Report’, which has a network of centers among people who are ‘have nots’ and living in remote areas.
Vision
Work for holistic development of the people in need specifically the poor, disadvantaged and vulnerable in the society.
Mission
Provide need – based health care to the people through integrated approach and learning opportunity for students and various other functionaries.
The programme has crossed narrow walls of division that existed between private and public sectors thorough a process of working in collaboration with Government and Non - government agencies for the past years with desired outcome. An outstanding feature of this programme is that through a planned ‘Valley and Lee’ Integral Development Project’ people who were never visited by any professional, have been visited at home and health care measures were made available. The services sweep people in the peaks of Western Ghats at Ambanad Hills and Achancovil down to the Valleys of Ariyankave and Thenmala covering the whole region of the two Panchayaths. It also serves people living in Paravoor, Kollam, Punalur Municipalities and Adichanalloor, Mayyanad, Thrikovilvattom and Nedungolam panchayaths working together with the staff in private and public sectors by rendering a chain of referral services through Primary Health Care approach.
The main activities are :
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- Medical camp
- Home Visit Services
- School Health programmes, under five clinics
- Primary Care Camps
- Specific Health Care Services
- MCH Clinics
- Elderly Health Programme
- Rehabilitation clinic
- Community Rehabilitation of the Disabled
- Adolescent clinic etc.
- Women Health, green Kerala
- Waste Management
- Unity Search among Youth (HOCus)
- After School Program through a band of trained volunteers
Collaborating PHCs are :
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- Thenmala
- Ariyankave
- Achencovil
- Kulathupuzha
- Palathara
- Mylakadu
- Nedugolam
- Pozhikara
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