Period: 2019-2022
Location: Vasna Ward of Ahmedabad City
The National Urban Health Mission (NUHM) initiated as the Sub Mission of the National Health Mission envisages to meet health care needs of the urban population with the focus on urban poor, by making available to them essential primary health care services and reducing their out of pocket expenses for treatment. This will be achieved by strengthening the existing health care service delivery system, targeting the people living in slums and converging with various schemes relating to wider determinants of health like drinking water, sanitation, school education, etc.
CHETNA has been awarded this project by HDB Financial Services limited to support the Government’s initiative.
Goal: To make health and nutrition information and services accessible to women, children and adolescents of urban slum community.
Specific objectives:
Improve household knowledge, care-giving and care-seeking decision-making skills related to improve maternal and child health and prevent, through the adoption and practice of positive health behaviors.
To create awareness about nutrition, health, hygiene and sanitation concerned to child, adolescents and women among community people.
To increase communities’ access of public health and nutrition services
Activities:
Expected Results: