• Underdeveloped villages in South 24 Parganas, including the Sundarban region, face malnutrition and illnesses due to poor socioeconomic conditions, lack of education, inadequate housing, sanitation, and unsafe water supplies.
• Women’s health requires targeted interventions and ethical health-seeking behaviors.
• To address these challenges, an initiative has been launched to educate the community, with a particular focus on Self-Help Group (SHG) women and children, about optimal health and hygiene practices.
• Swastha Shongini is an initiative of the Kolkata Foundation developed in collaboration with Mukti.
• Its goal is to create a low-cost, scalable program to improve healthcare services for the rural population by training village women to become campaigners for hygiene and nutrition.
• 24 community women have been trained in preventive healthcare by CINI and recognized as “Swasthya Sangini.”
• Their responsibilities include collecting household health data to monitor health outcomes, providing health information with a focus on women, adolescent, and child health and nutrition, conducting scheduled home visits for continuous monitoring, and serving as a comprehensive health information and resource center.
• They will also assist in screening for conditions like diabetes, anemia, and glaucoma and participate in telemedicine and other healthcare-related initiatives.
• The project is supervised by a program manager who regularly monitors its progress, along with their team.
The project is presently running in Mathurapur-I, Mathurapur-II 2, Patharpratima, Jaynagar, Kultali blocks of South 24 Pgs district, West Bengal, India
2000 +rural families getting guidance’s on preventive health care through community health care friends “Swasthya Shongini”
CINI Conducts Performance Evaluations of SwasthaSongini Members through On-site Visits
Email : health@muktiweb.org
Phone : + 91-6290589664
22 Canal Side Road, Barhans, Garia, Kolkata – 700 084
