Medical Centres
Prabhat Alloi FoundaCtion is based in the village of Dabar but its work extends to six nearby villages, offering all the local population free weekly medical consultations and medicines.
This region regularly suffers from severe drought, and it is a hard life with malnutrition and disease being common. Every year the people are faced with a scarcity of water. The water they try to conserve during the heavy monsoon rains of July and August is not sufficient for the needs for the entire year. The climate is dry and the atmosphere dusty. The people are mostly very poor, living below even India’s poverty level, and most depend on agriculture to try to sustain a living.
Because of these conditions, the majority of people suffer from consequential diseases and ailments. It is the women and children who suffer the most in this regard. Our medical team has found that most of the village women suffer from malnutrition, thrush, skin problems, stomach problems and gynaecological illnesses. Old people have stomach problems, high blood pressure, diabetes and general age-related problems. Fortunately, they are now able to access good quality drinking water, which supports improved health.
Many children experience malnutrition. Extensive poverty means that often people cannot go to hospital for treatment, and the diseases become chronic. The government hospital is twelve kilometers away from our area and there is no regular transport. In 2010, Prabhat Alloi Foundation team ran a survey and decided to set up a medical clinic, free for all the villagers. Western conventional medicine is expensive, and the traditional homeopathic treatment is preferred. They established a small homeopathic clinic operating from the school tuition centre, and appointed a doctor, nurse and assistant, all female to best support the village women.
The medical clinic began in 2010. The free clinic operates weekly, with over 40 people coming each week, some walking long distances. There is now also a medical clinic based in nearby Nabakuthashram, the home of elderly people with leprosy. Here they have their blood pressure checked, are provided with free medicine and have dressings changed.
