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Academic Activities / Events: like workshops, conferences, Yoga day, womens day, mental health day, Nurses day, etc are being conducted

Sports events: sports Events like Athletics, Kho-Kho, Kabaddi, volley Ball, Tug of war, badminton, Shot-put, cricket are being conducted.

Cultural Events: Cultural Events like Annual Gathering and Lamp lighting are being celebrated

At & Post: Chiplun, Ravtale,

Near “Bandhkam Bhavan”, Mumbai-Goa Highway,

Taluka: Chiplun, District: Ratnagiri, M.S.

Every daughter-in-law faces a mountain of expectations from her mother-in-law. Most important among those is the expectation about the birth of a grand-son. UHTC arranges get-togethers of “daughter-in-law & mother-in-law” to keep

this bond pleasant one. Doctors explain them the reasons behind the birth of a daughter or son and how the same are not dependent only on the woman, care to be taken of a newly born baby etc. This all will result in the newly born baby being welcomed with joy & happiness which is exactly the objective of this program. Birth of a child is an event which fills his mother with unlimited joy. Young age, lack of knowledge & awareness about pregnancy, fear of delivery & even fear/stress of the possibility of delivering a girl child causes the pregnant woman to be under stress all the time. To release this stress & pressure, the UHTC arranges Baby Shower ceremony for the pregnant women. This is expected to make the pregnant woman achieve pleasant state of mind, would make her more confident and lead to a stress-free delivery. It is one more way of the UHTC to build life-long bonds with women.

With an aim to elicit the community participation of ANC mothers and spreading awareness amongst them, a unique initiative was taken up by BKL Walawalkar Hospital for last 10 years. Lack of knowledge, Young age, and fear of delivery causes the pregnant woman to be under stress all the time. To release this stress & pressure, the hospital arranges Baby Shower ceremony for the pregnant women on a monthly basis. B.K.L. Walawalkar Hospital’s Community department has a strong commitment to help and uplift the underprivileged sections of society. The socio-economic differences in society does not make possible for poor people to celebrate such type of activities. We arrange common celebration of all expecting mother and also take this as an opportunity to educate women about managing symptoms, diet, exercise, and general care tips that will keep them and their baby healthy.

Beginning of the married life is one of the important steps filled with joy in the life of the couple. However it is necessary to understand the true meaning of this step for long lasting happiness in life. With this objective, UHTC arranges workshops for newly married couples.

Scientific knowledge is imparted about practices leading to a birth of a healthy child, importance of family planning with respect to the health of the mother & also with respect to the well-being of the entire family; care to be taken of the mother to avoid birth of a mal-nourished child, sexual health, AIDS etc

A social activity needs connect & association with the people’s representatives and government officials. An important link with the village is the village head-man. There are also others like the village-worker & the toy-school (“Anganwadi”) teacher. For spreading the knowledge about various schemes among the entire population, UHTC organizes separate seminars for all of them. Specialist doctors brief them about the schemes being run by UHTC and hospital. It is yet another way in which the hospital is trying to spread health-awareness.

The hospital aims at helping every human being to achieve and maintain his health and hence happiness. All the seminars, meetings, get-togethers towards achieving this aim involve the relevant government officials from the Ratnagiri district.

B.K.L. Walawalkar Rural Medical College’s Community department celebrates Haldi Kumkum every year by encouraging women to get together to celebrate their role in society and start fresh with each other for the New Year. Women who express devotion to their families, venerate they would love specially and have symbolic ties of love and affection with this gigantic tree which grows in every region and lives for centuries.

Teachers screen students on a continuous basis and UHTC Staff visit the schools (one school every week) for screening, treatment of minor ailments and referral. Doctors from UHTC will also visit one school per week based on the screening reports submitted by the teams. Overall services to be provided under school health includes-

In recognition of the urgency of ensuring the opportunity for every child and citizen to have a healthy and productive life, we have formed a Mother and child health Project in Rural area of Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra.

India’s greatest national treasure is our people. We cannot afford to neglect their well being and allow so many of our citizens to face hunger and malnutrition.

One of the major problems in rural India has been malnutrition of children below 6 years of age. With the aim of countering this problem in the vicinity of Ratnagiri & Sindhudurg Districts, children below 6 years of age & Antenatal & post natal mothers in the area were approached. This Malnutrition eradication project is implemented since year 2003. The specially trained teams impart information on Health & Healthy-Diet to this group. For the target group, parameters like Height, weight, Hemoglobin, serum proteins were monitored periodically & Nutritious food (in the form of “Ladoo”, prepared by the Hospital/Trust) was supplied to them on a weekly basis. Children and antenatal mothers are being benefited through this project. The project has created a positive impact on the beneficiaries.

School going children constitute an important fraction of the total population. School children have tremendous latent potential as future human resource of the country. The health issues associated with school children are unique and need special interventions. Malnutrition among school children is widespread in Konkan region of Western Maharashtra and it needs to be dealt with on priority. It is observed that oral hygiene of these children is very poor. Dental caries has severely affected functional capacity of their teeth. This could be one of the contributory factors toward persistent malnutrition.

In the view of above, UHTC is running a School Health Programme which also include Dental Check-up and Treatment i.e. ‘Dental Caries Elimination’ for underprivileged children of remote Konkan region of Western Maharashtra with special emphasis on oral health education. These school children are periodically screened & treated by Medical Officers & Dentists.

Adolescent constitute over 21.4 % of the population in India. The onset of Adolescent is a major transition in an individual’s life and has psychological and emotional implications. In the case of girls, the onset of menstruation further complicates their personal life. The psychosocial and emotional problems are of considerable magnitude and they may exert significant influence on their nutritional status. Unfortunately, assessment of nutritional status of adolescent girls has been the least explored area of research particularly in rural India.

Nutritional anthropometry predominates over the other methods of nutritional assessment. Several workers have emphasized the importance of Body Mass Index (BMI) as an index of nutritional assessment. As reported elsewhere, high prevalence of under nutrition (BMI<18.5) was observed in adolescent girls of rural area of Ratnagiri District on the basis of this index. This indicates that adolescent girls are the worst sufferers of the ravages of various forms of malnutrition since the beginning of adolescent period. This phenomenon remains uninterrupted throughout their life. Variations in the extent of under-nutrition among adolescent girls could be attributed to differences in socio-cultural practices, level of socio-economic development, value attached to a girl child and prevailing dietary practices in different settings.

The girls who were found to be anemic were started on Iron and folic acid tablets. Health education about Nutrition and menstrual problems was provided to them. After the completion of three months we plan to repeat their CBC & Hb estimation to find out the prevalence & improvement in the Hb level of adolescent girls. To address the menstrual problems, workshop for adolescent girls will be arranged in every three months in coordination with respective departments.

Not every village has a government run medical centre. For medical services to be offered to the people from these villages, the staff visits them with medical-team-on-wheels in a specially prepared vehicle under the National Rural Health Mission. This Mobile Unit is run by B.K.L.Walawalkar Rural Medical College, RHTC since 2010. The vehicle has a small pathology laboratory, operation theatre & medicine store. Using this vehicle, a team visits villages in remote & inaccessible parts to meet their needs of medical services. With a properly planned schedule the team visits one village every day. The village representatives, leaders, qualified persons from the village and the women from the self-help groups support this activity of medical examination of villagers, pregnant mothers and adolescent girls. Free medicines are distributed and in case of a need of further treatment the patient is brought to the hospital where he is treated by specialist doctors. This is the way the B.K.L. Walawalkar Rural Medical College is contributing to the government initiative of National Rural Health Mission.