:: Community Outreach ::

"Rural Health is the physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and social well-being of an individual in a rural setting which permits optimal functioning of the mind, body and spirit, including but not limited to, freedom from, or adaptation to, disease, disability, pain or other abnormality"

People living in rural areas have limited access to specialist services in their local area as compared to their urban counterparts. The shortage of qualified health care professionals in these remote areas has an impact on the delivery of, access to, quality health care services. The poor intercity transport services, traffic, distances, low-income, low literacy and lack of knowledge prevent the majority of people in rural belts from reaching the city for the treatment of their health problems. Thus, there is always an increasing need of establishing an integrated network of Outpatient Clinics and Base Hospitals in the rural belts to provide quality primary and secondary health care at an affordable cost at their doorstep as well as to guide the patients with major diseases to the tertiary care hospital in city.

RHOP is being setup since April 2003 for achieving the above goals. For many years, the Christian Medical College and Hospital, Ludhiana has reached out to the wider community by providing health care and education in urban and rural communities through clinics and medical camps. But now this new initiative has started from CMC & H, Ludhiana to provide a network of health services in the rural belts around Ludhiana in

 conjunction with Village Panchayats, Local Trusts and other Local Organizations. Ludhiana is surrounded by a rural belt in a radius of more than 100 Km (62 miles), interspersed with small towns and villages. RHOP services aim to address the problems caused by the social and cultural barriers to health care of the individuals in rural belts surrounding Ludhiana. Last year about 16 comprehensive medical care camps were organized besides the regular monthly camp at Christu Jyoti Hospital, Amloh. A monthly Psychiatric Clinic is also held at Missionaries of Charity, a home for mentally challenged children.

Geographical Areas Covered by RHOP

RHOP UNITS RUNNING UNDER THE DIVISION

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