Mother Care Project
As Paalana Institute is doing everything possible to help the poor and needy segment of our population whom are below the poverty line, in Palakkad District and its suburbs, have launched a new venture “Mother Care” with an aim to extend proper medical care for the Mother and Child with a view to have healthy future buds with a Nominal Enrollment fee of Rs. 500/- for the expecting mothers whom are below poverty line, ensuring proper Medical Care in pregnancy, delivery and post delivery check-up.
The program is a package as follows:
- Pregnancy test
- Periodical Examination during pregnancy period
- Scanning
- Free medicines
- Delivery care (This include normal delivery, surgery, hospital admittance)
- Free medicines for the new born baby
- Nursing care
- Post delivery check-up
Properly monitored and nursed delivery will cost nothing less than Rs. 10,000/- to 15,000/- these days and in case of a surgery the expenses will exceed again.
This project was launched in the year 2006 and during the first and second phase this scheme turned as a boon for more than 400 poor women to have a safe and healthy pregnancy period and delivery. Third phase of the project is inaugurated on 21/12/2010.
One Time Free Food per day for the patients in General Ward is provided by the Institution
Reasonable concessions allowed to financially backward patients
Rural Medical Camps
- Becoming a part of Rural Health Scheme, we have selected some remote villages and tribal areas and we conduct free medical camps at these places
- A team of Doctors, Nurses and Social Workers are visiting the places once in a week
- This gesture is of much help to many needy poor people for whom proper medical care is not within their reach
- We have earmarked some more places to extend medical assistance on regular basis in the coming days, to conduct free medical camps
- We are also committed and extending additional free medical camps with the help of our medical camp team to other places from where request are made
- Apart from this we used to conduct free medical camps in the premises of our institution in different departments in regular cycles
- We also does free medical services on all the specific days declared connected with human health care
- We are caring the younger generations by conducting medical camps at Govt. Primary and Secondary Schools in and around Palakkad.
- With a view to cover people from different sections we used to have medical camps at Prison, Railway Station, Bus Station, Old Age Homes and also camps for very young buds whom are from the nursery to lower primary class levels.
- We have other activities of charitable services joining hands with clubs and institutions such as Rotary International and Lions Club.
