NECHA BULLETIN AUGUST 2021

NECHA BULLETIN NORTH EASTERN COMMUNITY HEALTH ASSOCIATION (NECHA) BHOLA BABA PATH, HOUSE NO. 2, SIX MILE, GUWAHATI - 781022, ASSAM VOL - II. NO.8 AUGUST, 2021 Editorial A Country demand the soldiers and police forces to be healthy. They are provided balanced and nutritious diet. In the same way people or Tribe and a village must make sure that the members have balanced diet, healthy habits and so on for leading a healthy life. Even the family members and individuals have to take care of the members to build up healthy habits of food, rest, exercise, religious practices and healthy neighbouring relationships. A village or family with unhealthy people is a weakness. We see many people with common ailments when climate changes. It is due to ignorance or carelessness to form good and healthy life habits. Never get addicted to drinking very hot water or coffee or tea. It can lead to throat infections, sinus problems, breathing problems, pharyngitis, diphtheria, laryngitis, Asthma and so on. BUILD UP NATURAL AND GOOD LIVING HABITS FOR ENJOYING LIFE PLEASE TAP HERE TO TURN

NECHA BULLETIN A HEALTHY TRIBE CAUSES OF ILL HEALTH HEALTHY 1. Lack of balanced diet. 2. Ignorance of looking after one’s own health = Look at the soldiers. All of them look fat, stout, good physical appearance, shining and healthy and of the family. skin, smart, strong and good health. 3. No nutrition education and health awareness. = We see the police persons. All look healthy, 4. Not convinced of nutrition and balanced diet. good physical appearance, smart and strong. All 5. Poverty and many poor daily wage earners. are healthy. 6. Poor hygiene conditions. = Soldiers and police people are strictly advised, 7. Illiteracy. taught and monitored to eat balanced diet and to 8. Exploitation, proper wages and prices of keep healthy, smart and strong by the Government. their products are not received. 9. Most of the pregnant mothers in the villages UNHEALTHY are anaemic and under nourished. A country cannot have unhealthy, limping, sickly 10. No Iron tablets, no vitamins or “Arishtams” and lazy soldiers and police. In time of any emergency situations how can sick soldiers protect (Tonics) made available to women especially and defend the community. Sick soldiers cannot to pregnant women due to poor transport protect or defend the country. Sick and unhealthy and connectivity. police cannot keep up law and order situations. 11. Most of the new born babies are underweight. A TRIBE/ VILLAGE 12. Many of the villages do not have health Teams to monitor the health of mothers and = A big tribe with many sick and unhealthy under five babies. people, especially the youth, will be very vulnerable to ill health. A big tribe with many REMEDIES unhealthy people can easily be attacked and defeated, overpowered and enslaved by a small 1. Introduce NECHA’s Community Health healthy tribe. There can be a lot of insecurity. programmes in the villages. = It is prudence and bound by duty for a tribe or village or family to make every member healthy. 2. Formation of Community Health Teams and = In a way it is imprudent to have many unhealthy select Community Health Leaders of NECHA people in a village. Every Tribe, village or family in the villages. must remedy it and become healthy and secure. 3. Organize nutrition education and kitchen garden. 4. Training of Community Health leaders to monitor common ailments and common Remedies. 5. Join Govt. or NECHA’s Health monitoring of pregnant women and under 5 children. 6. Make available vitamins “Arishtams”, multivitamins and deworming remedies for under 5 children and pregnant women. 7. Enable the villagers to eat balanced diet for increasing immune power and good health. 8. Enable the people to support the Community Health Leaders wherever needed. 9. Enable the people to promote income generation activities and self help groups. 10. Promotion of spiritual health. With all these a tribe or village or family can be healthy and secure. MAY THESE MESSAGES REACH ALL THE VILLAGES PLEASE TAP HERE TO TURN

NECHA BULLETIN HEALTH TIPS + HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT + To make our life healthy we need a healthy NECHA Bulletin is for the health education of environment. The air we breathe and fan our the people, especially the youth in the body, the water we drink and bathe, the light villages. we see, not too dim or too bright, the food we We wish to circulate the Bulletin to all the eat not too hot or cold. All these are to be villages in the North Eastern States. moderate and natural. We need to form You may give us the WhatsApp No. or Email moderate and natural habits in life. Our body is ID of your people or forward it to them. adjusted to limited variations of environment Those who like to begin Community around us. This is how we use warm clothes and Organising Programmes in your village may heaters in extreme cold climate, fans, coolers contact your Parish Priest or Nurse Sister or and Air Conditioners in hot climate. Contact NECHA office directly. + Continuous use of hot water for drinking, bathing and so on will make our body adjusted Fr. K.C. George, and habituated to it. A change to cold water for Director, NECHA drinking, bathing and so on can invite sickness. A person adjusted to hot atmosphere will find Bhola Baba Path, House No. 2, Six Mile, difficult with cold atmosphere and food. Khanapara, Guwahati - 781022, Assam. + For example a person adjusted and addicted Mobile: 9678224827 (O), 8974008332 (P) to hot atmosphere needs to cover the throat, Email: [email protected] cover the head etc. when he/ she is under a fan. Website: nechaindia.org + Develop always moderate and natural habits in life. Private Circulation only + COVID 19 WAVE 3: Please strictly follow the directives given by the state Govt. and North East India Regional Bishop’s Conference. Co-operate with North Eastern Diocesan Social Forum and the Regional/ Diocesan Health Commission. FORWARD NECHA BULLETIN TO MANY PEOPLE IN VILLAGES WISH YOU ALL A VERY HAPPY INDEPENDANCE DAY NECHA TEAM