• Health
• He:alth
We think health is most important human asset. There are some exogenous enemies like bacteria (good bacteria’s are also there), viruses, etc. But still, health must be sustained by the people themselves. We lead community-driven health initiatives with a focus on mother and child health, nutrition, and communicable diseases like tuberculosis, specifically drug-resistant tuberculosis (our focus is not on medical diagnosis and treatment and rather facilitating government health machinery, not overlapping). We also emphasize on non-communicable diseases, particularly diabetes, by building community-based awareness, identifying high-risk groups through BMI and other factors, screening the high risk groups and identifying the suspected cases of diabetes through random sugar test with reading of 200 ml/dl and providing referral services to the identified patients’ to government hospitals. We have also a very bright strong record of working on gestational diabetes in the slum area in Kolkata. Debasis formulated project “Preventing GDM among Slum Women in Kolkata” with the wholehearted support and also technical assistance of Dr. Gijantali Saha, Director, Grecaltes. The project was later sanctioned by World Diabetes Foundation, Denmark. We have a special focus on diabetic foot care. Additionally, we design proposals for awareness campaigns on cancer, lifestyle modification for Hepatitis B and C, liver health, cardiovascular diseases, and stroke. We have a long track record on working on reduction of risks among the marginal workers, flying sex workers, Myanmar refugee women working as flying sex workers in the More Border, in Manipur and also common drug inject users in Manipur and Nagaland youth through motivation, drug de-addiction, and promotion of safer sexual practices among the clients of sex workers.