BTS update

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• Regular Project Updates

• Projects on AID-Austin mailing list

• Ideal Project Review

• Todays agenda

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BTS update
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BTS activities

• Community Health Care AID ICA
• School Path Bhavan Asha
• Classes for rural dropouts/girls
• Saving Schemes
• Kitchen Gardening
• Sustainable Agriculture

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Community Health Care

• Phase I August 2002
• Doctor working 5 days a week
• 6 VHWs
• Phase II March 2003
• 2 Doctors
• Training for VHWs
• Survey
• 100 families have bought the FHCs

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Structure of the training program
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Project Report

• Survey
• Opinion of the clinic infrastructure
• Daily Record of Doctor VHW
• Doctor
• Mainly in the clinic
• Visits houses on emergency calls (N.Baikuntapur)
• Trains the VHWs

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Project Report

• VHW
• Office work
• Assists the doctor
• Goes for house visit
• Attends training
• PSS meetings
• Topics of discussion
• What people felt/learnt from the discussion
• Suggestions for improvements

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Project Report

• Letters by a few patients cured by the clinic
• Patients chart
• Family Health Card Format
• Training Material

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Site Visits Telephone Calls
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Long term plans

• Set up the clinic infrastructure
• Equip the mobile boat to provide treatment to
  people during transportation
• Convert the mobile boat into a clinic which can
  go to the neighboring islands and provide the
  treatment.

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Site Visit

• Tathagatha San Diego
• The people in the area trust BTS
• They seem to be doing good work
• Seem to get involved in a lot of activities
  without driving things to completion

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Some issues

• Sustenance apart from FHC
• A centralized income generation project
  integrated farming, poultry farming prawn
  farming
• Issue with the doctor

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Non-monetary contributions

• Proposal for Homeopathy Clinic
• Medical equipment
• Translation of TNSF training material

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Some thoughts

• Focus is on the clinic and getting the
  infrastructure
• Personal opinion
• Good work
• Not too much focus on preventive health
• Dependency on doctor is a obstacle to
  sustainability
• Communication has not been too smooth