NECHA BULLETIN_SEPTEMBER 2020

NECHA BULLETIN NORTH EASTERN COMMUNITY HEALTH ASSOCIATION (NECHA) BHOLA BABA PATH, HOUSE NO. 2, SIX MILE, GUWAHATI - 781022, ASSAM VOL - I. NO.V SEPTEMBER, 2020 CURATIVE HEALTH Director's messEGE PREVENTIVE HEALTH PROMOTION OF HEALTH From time immemorial it is the cultural and social custom of the people in the North East to lead a village or community centred life against family centred life. The village belongs to everyone and each one contribute Voluntarily to the needs and welfare of the village. Nobody expected a remuneration for the voluntary service. The virtue of VOLUNTARISM is in the blood of the people of N.E.I. The modern economic approach changed 'Voluntarism\" and voluntary services to money oriented services. People were more healthy and happy in the system of voluntary services. At present money minded services make people selfish, unhealthy, greedy for money, no more voluntary service in the village centred life. Now is the time to enable the people to go back to the \"virtue of Voluntarism\" which was their valuable culture, Community Health and Community Organising model of Health approach will create voluntary leadership and leaders in the villages. NORTH EASTERN COMMUNITY HEALTH ASSOCIATION (NECHA) is involved in assisting the Dioceses, Parishes and villages through Community Health and Community Organising programmes. The recharging of the Parishes and villages with some amount of voluntarism will make the people more happy and more healthy. PLEASE TAP HERE TO TURN

NECHA BULLETIN POST COVID-19 2. PREVENTIVE HEALTH POST COVID-19 HEALTH MISSION OF THE \"Prevention is better than Cure\" (Sushruta CHURCH Samhita). The Diocesan Health Programmes are to be integrated in the Universities, (COMMUNITY HEALTH AND COMMUNITY colleges, Schools and in the Communities or ORGANISING MODEL) Villages. 1. ORGANISING OF DIOCESES, PARISHES, We have to introduce the preventive Health VILLAGES AND VILLAGE GROUPS Mission of the Church to the Staff and Students 2. CREATION OF LEADRSHIP AND LEADERS of the Universites and Colleges and encourage IN THE COMMUNITIES (VILLAGES) them to make simple researches on Preventive Education models so that people may be Post Covid-19, our Education, Health, Charity easily prevented from getting sick. Church's and Pastoral activities are to be reorganised. Health Care Mission has to give more We shall search, think, analyse, study and importance to Preventive Health Care. deliberate a suitable and pastoral model of Health and Health Care approaches and 3. PROMOTION OF HEALTH (COMMUNITY activities. HEALTH) HEALTH; is a total well being of the whole person; physically, mentally, socially, Promotion of Health means making people culturally and spiritually. aware of their rights and duties. People are HEALTH CARE; is viewed in its 3 aspects, enabled to meet together, identify their namely Curative, Preventive and Promotive or problmes, make decisions and implement. This Promotion. democratic way of making decisions and 1. CURATIVE HEALTH impelmenting them become peoples decisions and peoples programmes, that is health OF Doctors, Nurses, Health workers in the the people, FOR the people and BY the Hospitals, Health centres and Dispensaries people. are involved in manage the curing the sick. We have to pray for Doctors and Nurses and COMMUNITY ORGANIZING MODEL encourage them for their noble work. DIOCESAN HEALTH COMMISION SECRETARY Doctors and Nurses will think of acquiring new DIOCESAN COMMUNITY HEALTH ideas, methods and new therapies and SECRETARY (NECHA) medicines to improve the present curative health care approach. Curative Health Care Diocesan Health Commission Secretary and is an important work of Church's Health the Diocesan Community Health Secretary Mission. with the 4 Community Health Leaders as a Community (2 men & women) Health Resource Team will monitor all the Health and Community Health Programmes in the Diocese. The Diocesan Health and Community Health Team will visit Parishes. The team will help the Parish Priest for community Organising. Turn the Page

NECHA BULLETIN ORGANISING THE DIOCESE FORMATION OF PARISH Community Health Planning Team In a Diocese it is the Right, Duty and Privilege Members: of the Bishop with his Health Commission to Parish Priest/ Fathers organise the Diocese for Curative, Preventive Nurse Sisters and Touring Sisters 2 Touring/Local catechists and Promotion of Health Services. In the same 2 Members from Parish Pastoral Council 2 Youth (1 boy and 1 Girl) way in a Parish it is the Right, Duty and 2 from Women Society. NECHA's Training team with Diocesan Privilege of the Parish Priest, with his health Community Health and Commission Secretaries Team to organise the parish for Curative, will form the Resource Team. Preventive and Promotion of Health Services. AGENDA MODEL OF DIOCESAN HEALTH PLANNING 1. Election of 1 Parish Community Health Secretary who will contribute his time on TEAM Sundays for Community Organising in Villages. Archbishop / Bishop 2. Elect 4 (2 Boys & 2 Girls) Parish Level Diocesan Health Commission Secretary (CBCI) Community Health Leaders, who will also Diocesan Community Health Secretary contribute their time on Sundays for (NECHA) Community Organising in the Villages. Director, Diocesan Social Service Society 3. The Leadership Training will motivate the (DSSS) Parish Community Health Leaders to visit the 1 Community Health Nurse Sister villages in the Parish 2 Parish Priests 4. The Parish Team selects about 10 villages 2 Catechists for community organising. 4 Community Leaders Resource Person - Director, NECHA. Training of the Leaders at different levels These 14 members of the Diocesan Health will be imparted by the Diocesan Resource Team make a study of the Health situation in Team of NECHA. the Diocese. They propose Action plans. All the Secretaries and Leaders in various Diocesan Community Health Secretary will levels will be trained by the Diocesan monitor and implement all the Health and Resource Team of NECHA. Health Care Services in the Diocese. The Secretaries and Leaders will give The Diocesan Team meets for planning once in voluntary health services to their a year. communities. PARISH ORGANISING The Parish Priest with the Leaders of Parish Health Team formulate the Health planning of the Parish and Villages. PLEASE TAP HERE TO TURN

NECHA BULLETIN DIOCESAN TEAM TO PARISH - Formation PARISH TEAM TO VILLAGES: of Parish Community Health Team Formation of the Village Community Diocesan Team will visit each selected Health Team Parish. The team interact with the Fathers, Nurse Sisters, Catechists, Women Society The Parish Team will visit a selected village. Leaders and Youth Leaders and Pastoral The team interact in groups or individually Council Leaders and enable the Parish with the Village Chief, Village Authority, Priest to form a Parish Community Health Women and Youth Leaders, the Catechists Team. One Parish Community Health and Pastors. The Parish team enable the Secretary and 4 (2 boys and 2 girls) villages to form a village Community Health Leaders are selected. The Parish Health Team. They select one village Community Health Team will be trained by Secretary and 4 Leaders (2 Boys & 2 Girls) the Diocesan Resource Team. The Parish who can monitor the Community Health Community Health Team will be trained by activities in the village. the Diocesan Resource Team. The Parish Community Health and Organising The Village Community Health Team Programmes will be monitored by the 1. from Village Authority Members. Parish Priest and the Nurse Sister with the 2. from Village Women Society help of the Parish Community Health 3. from Village Youth (1 Boy & 1 Girl) Secretary and the 4 Parish Leaders. 4. Catechist/Pastor 5. Village Community Health Secretary 6. Village Community Health Leaders VILLAGE GROUPS AND GROUP LEADERS The village Community Health Team divide the village into 5 groups. Each group is in a marked area with all the families in it. The Village Community Health Team enable the groups to select 1 group Secretary and 4 Leaders in each group. So in a village there are 5 group Secretaries and 20 group Leaders. The Secretaries and Community Health Leaders after their training look after the families in the group and the families look after the leaders. Training will be given by the Diocesan Community Health NECHA Team. PLEASE TAP HERE TO TURN

NECHA BULLETIN INGREDIENTS COMMUNICATION Sugar 1 scoop Net working and WhatsApp groups are formed Salt 1 pinch and maintained in all the villages so that the Bishop, Parish Priests or NECHA staff can contact Lime (Lemon) few drops any one of the 2500 leaders to monitor the project activities Water Half Litre (1 big glass) CONCLUSION SUGAR SALT LEMON WATER Community Health and Community Organising Mix and drink plenty each time after the toilet for Model is relevant, practical, useful and result about two days and do not need any medicine. After oriented in our Post Covid-19 Pastoral 2 days, if diarrhoea is not stopped, medicine may be approach. The Pastors reach out to the people needed. of God personally and directly. NECHA Bulletin is for the health education of INFORMATION :- the people, especially the youth in the villages. Those who like to begin Community Organising We wish to circulate the Bulletin to all the Programmes in your village may contact your villages in the North Eastern States. Parish Priest or Nurse Sister or Contact NECHA You may give us the WhatsApp No. or Email office directly. ID of your people. HEALTH TIPS Those who like to begin Community Organising Programmes in your village may DIARRHOEA AND ORS contact your Parish Priest or Nurse Sister or (Oral Rehydration Solution) Contact NECHA office directly. Diarrhoea was the number one killer disease of Fr. K.C. George, children below 5 years old. The introduction of Director, NECHA ORS, child mortality rate drastically came down. Bholababa Path, House No. 2 ORS is also called Mother's No.! Medicine. Six Mile, Khanapara Guwahati-781022, Assam. In whichever villages NECHA was involved with mobile: 9678224827 (0) Health Education, Diarrhoea has disappeared and child mortality came down. Yet in rural 8974008332 (P) areas still diarrhoea is the common ailment of Email: [email protected] children. Website: nechaindia.org Manage diarrhoea with ORS. All the mothers Private Circulation only will keep ready ORS things at home for emergency. Through diarrhoea water, Sugar and minerals are lost. Through ORS all the lost elements are put back.