Health Care

Water supply, sanitation and health are closely related. Poor hygiene, inadequate quantities and quality of drinking water and lack of sanitation facilities cause millions of the world’s poorest people to die from preventable diseases each year. Women and children are the main victims.

Water, sanitation and health are linked in many ways:
Contaminated water that is consumed may result in water-borne diseases including viral hepatitis, typhoid, cholera, dysentery and other diseases that cause diarrhea
Without adequate quantities of water for personal hygiene, skin and eye infections (trachoma) spread easily
Water-based diseases and water-related vector-borne diseases can result from water supply projects (including dams and irrigation structures) that inadvertently provide habitats for mosquitoes and snails that are intermediate hosts of parasites that cause malaria, schistomsomisis, lymphatic filariasis, onchocerciasis and Japanese encephalitis
Drinking water supplies that contain high amounts of certain chemicals (like arsenic and nitrates) can cause serious disease.
6 million people are blind from trachoma and the population at risk is about 500 million.
300 million people suffer from malaria.

Lack of clean water and sanitation is the second most important risk factor in terms of the global burden of disease,

after malnutrition. Approximately 4 billion cases of diarrhea per year cause 1.5 million deaths, mostly among children under five. Moreover, Intestinal Worms infect about 10% of the population of the developing world, and can lead to malnutrition, anemia and retarded growth.

INITIATIVE OF RADHA BALA FOUNDATION ON THIS REGARD :

1. SWACHH BHARAT MISSION (SBM)

START-UP ACTIVITIES

Survey on Sanitation & Hygiene in Kamrup rural with the help of SHG and VO.
Organizing Awareness drive to adopt better sanitation practices.
Conducting Maternal Health Programmes like Janani Suraksha Yojana under National Rural Health Mission.

In the year 2019-20 we have completed one project on Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM NOLB) in collaboration with HB Development Society, Hatishula. We made 14 toilets under SBM NOLB projects in Goroimari Area, Chhaygaon Revenue Circle of Kamrup rural district.

2. CONDUCTED FREE EYE CHECK UP CAMP

Radha Bala Foundation by joining hands with Sankardeva Nethralaya, Guwahati conducted a Free Eye Check Up Camp at Thengapara, covering more than 6 SC villages in Mirza on 14th Nov. 2011. After ample research we found that most of the people, living in that area are suffering from vision problem. So, the camp was meant for those poor people who had Eye disorders but were not able to get the cure because of their poverty. Tests were conducted to detect vision deficiencies, cataract and so on. Nearly 200 people from the local area and surrounding area participated in the camp. Besides conducting tests, free medicines were provided to the needy people. Moreover, 15 people were benefited with free Operational treatment whose eye disorder had worsened.