People living in the remote rural and inaccessible areas are finding difficulty to access basic health care. There are numerous diseases such as malaria, TB, AIDS and other water-borne diseases, killing a large number of people at an early stage of life. The people are not only spending a large sums of money in health care, but also loosing a vital part of their productive time for prolonged illness. The infant mortality rate among the children is above 100 per 1000 in Orissa. All these needs serious interventions for enabling the rural communities to access health care as a matter of right.

Health care, family welfare, drinking water, housing and sanitation services are relatively very poor. Malnutrition, ill health, prolonged illness affect the working capability and productivity. Mortality rate is high because of ignorance of tribals. The areas are malaria-prone. By continuous efforts, some changes have been found. The Govt. facilities have been increased by organizing immunization camps and vaccination camps. The reproductive child health system has also improved by various awareness measures.

Controlling of  Malnourishment and Infant Mortality:

We promote access to food and nutrition through higher food production, production and consumption of vegetables as well as higher expenditure in food items. Immunization of children and pregnant mother, care of pregnant women and safe delivery are key components of our work. The focus is more on preventive care and we have achieved considerable success in our field areas.

Control of Malaria: Malaria is one of the main killer disease and it affects many people more than 2-3 times a year. Besides, promoting personal protection (use of dis-infected mosquito nets), blood tests and early use of medicines have reduced the incidence and death risks. The drug distribution centres (DDCs) of Government are activated and effectively used by the people. Severe illness cases are referred to hospitals and attended by our doctors.

HIV/AIDS: In the western Orissa as well as in Nayagarh district, where large scale migration is a regular feature and many women are becoming victims of trafficking, this has become a potential danger. There are many cases reported recently. Hence, CPSW  has started awareness on the potential impact of such dreaded disease.

Safe Drinking Water & Sanitation: This is cause of most of the illness of our people. We have created awareness and attempted repair of tubewells and motivating people to use water filters. Though supply of drinking water is the main priority and we are promoting ‘Swajaldhara’ scheme of the Government, sanitation is realized to be one of the most priority need in coastal districts. Sanitation becomes a major problem during times of flood and water logging and women particularly suffer a lot.

In 75 villages, we are implementing rural sanitation programme in collaboration with Government. All the families are adopting sanitation measures and hence, the impact of worm infection and other diseases are declining. In Nayagarh district, we are participating in total sanitation campaign in 39 villages of 4-GPs in Khandapara block. The response from people is very good. Similarly, we are working in Naugaon block of Jagatsingpur district. Besides this, we are strengthening the traditional village health care system.

Immunization and Health Camps:

It is an ongoing activity in the area as the Government facilities are very poor and the reach of the people to the mainstream health system is very weak. So with our own initiative, we are taking of various activities involving the community and the Government people. Both preventive and curative measures are being taken to ameliorate the impact of the common diseases on health system of the local people