The village outreach programme has been an essential part of the hospital services since 1991. The outreach team conducts regular visits to ten adopted villages providing basic health care and medication.
Patients requiring indoor treatment are encouraged to travel back to the base hospital with the team. The health service focuses on mother and child care, malnutrition, skin diseases and tuberculosis.
The ten villages forming the village outreach programme circle are Aarna, Chandela, Jaidra-Kyaria, Jawaingaon, Nichalagarh, Oriya, Salgaon, Takiya, Uplagarh and Utteraj.
Supplementary nutritional (mid-day snack) projects are also run in twelve village primary schools. The village outreach programme has taken up the training of village women in sewing skills in an effort to make them economically self-reliant.
The village outreach team is indebted to the Global Harmony Foundation, Hong Kong Indian Womens Association, Sindhi Nari Sabha of London and others who have contributed to various village outreach programme endeavours.
