By the Brahmaputra ( Vol: 65, July – September 2024)
cnesadminThe India Health and Climate Resilience Fellowship (IHCRF)Boat Clinic Recognized for Excellence in Antenatal Care Drive
IHCRF Fellows Nimisha Bhuyan and Anup Sharma with C-NES members and a visiting team from BFI
The India Health and Climate Resilience Fellowship (IHCRF) is an initiative started by the Blockchain for Impact (BFI) in association with partner organizations like PHIA (Partnering Hope Into Action) Foundation and C-NES. The India Health and Climate Resilience Fellowship (IHCRF) empowers healthcare actors to design and implement human-centric solutions for primary healthcare challenges. The fellowship programme encourages innovation and continuous learning to create a responsive and resilient public health system.
The fellowship aims to create a learning layer at the district level consisting of a pair of fellows trained in Human Centric Design (HCD) with a background in social work and public health respectively, to understand and identify health and climate resilience related challenges in the community.
In the Dhubri district of Assam the IHCR fellowship programme is being done in partnership with C-NES and PHIA Foundation where IHCRF Fellows Anup Sharma and Nimisha Bhuyan will focus on the health ecosystem in the district with special focus on the char areas (sandbars) to identify pressing problems that affect the health outcomes for communities in the region. In the next two and half years the two IHCRF fellows will continuously engage with the entire ecosystem and different stakeholders including the communities in the district. They are expected to work following the principles of HCD and are expected to come up with innovative solution to address the problems and challenges they identify that will empower healthcare service providers and care seekers to build resilience in their daily lives and prepare for future health crises.
Launch of Boat Clinic Programme in Darrang District
A new Boat Clinic health outreach programme for Darrang district in middle Assam was launched on July 26th by the Darrang District Administration to provide health care to vulnerable communities on the islands of the district.
The district administration and the Darrang unit of the National Health Mission (NHM) has developed this project in collaboration with C-NES. Funding support came from Glenmark Foundation, Mumbai, The boat clinic staff were given special training by the district NHM. Along with health and district administration officials led by the District Commisioner, Mongoldoi, MN Ngantey, former chief secretary Assam TY Das and former Chief Information Commisioner and C-NES Trustee HS Das, Special Advisor, Dr M K Barooah was present
“With the launch of the Boat Clinic an important gap in the health services has been covered and will of immense help in providing basic health care services in the far-flung areas of the district” said Nayana Parasher DPM, NHM Darrang.DPM, NHM Darrang.
In his speech, Munindra Nath Ngatey, District Commissioner of Darrang, stated the boat clinic launched today will further enhance efforts to extend health services to the district’s remote river islands.The District Commissioner also expressed his appreciation to Glenmark Foundation and C-NES for their support in launching the boat clinic service
C-NES has been providing basic health care services, through specially developed boats equipped with laboratories and pharmacies on board, to communities living on river islands in 14 districts of Assam supported by NHM since 2008. The clinics take sustained health care to lakhs of persons on the islands, with a special focus on women and children, who are the most vulnerable in difficult conditions. On board are fully fledged medical teams (doctors, nurses as well as lab technicians and pharmacists) which conduct regular health camps organized through a network of community health workers and organizers in the district.
Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Limited is a research‐led, global pharmaceutical company, having a presence across branded, generics, and OTC segments; with a focus in the therapy areas of Respiratory, Dermatology and Oncology. The company has four research and development centres, ten world‐class manufacturing facilities spread across five continents, and operations in over eighty countries.
Instituted around the theme of ‘Healthier Children, Healthier World’, Glenmark Foundation, the CSR arm of Glenmark Pharmaceuticals, is actively working towards improving child health and reducing Infant/Child Mortality
“The boat clinics bring health care coverage to the marginalized and are helping to improve the overall health scenario in the state,” said Mr. Sanjoy Hazarika, Founder and Managing Trustee, C-NES.
