Our empowerment is in our own hands
When given the opportunity to women, they have always proved themselves and by taking such an initiative, they have certainly contributed a lot for the improvement of the health situations of the local rural community.
IN INDIA, empowerment of women is a big issue, but not anymore, as women in the Dharampur village of Uttar Pradesh have learnt to empower themselves on their own. They are more and more taking up the tele-medicine business. Hands which were engaged in making rotis for so long are now busy with medical equipments, and it all owes a big thanks to World Health Partners (WHP), an NGO. When given the opportunity to women, they have always proved themselves and by taking such an initiative, they have certainly contributed a lot for the improvement of the health situation of the local rural community. Women in these areas have proven that they can very well function as the primary care providers and can also help in filling the gap made because of the unavailability of the doctors.
Wardha district of Maharashtra has young women from villages, who are trained as ‘Community Health Messengers’, are the only trained people available around the clock to help people suffering with health problems.
A worker is equipped to provide first aid wherever required, she keeps a check on maternal care, she is also in tune with the community and the thing which helps her the most in inculcating healthy habits in the members of the community is that she knows what are the needs of her community members.
This idea of empowerment has been taken up mostly by the NGO’s and community health programmes of national colleges and not by the national governments.
ASHA’s (Accredited Social Health Activists), are local midwives, who help in overcoming the problem of the absentee health workers. But, they fall short of achieving health targets as their capacity has not been developed to their maximum potential.
In Africa, nurses and midwives have been trained to perform Cesarean surgeries, as well as administer life saving injections. These help them make a big difference in saving someone’s life. These types of training help in making a big difference between life and death. A general practitioner with such training can save the lives of the victims of snake bite, which is most common in the rural areas across the globe. These solutions certainly require a leap of imagination. It in turn helps those villages which just have 12 workers serving to a population of 10,000 people or more.
It isn’t bad at all, if a person suffering from a chronic disease can go and consult with the local practitioner, who is in turn more capable of relating herself to his/her needs. So, when this type of programmes are working well for the empowerment of women as well as for raising the standards of the women, we all should leave the idea behind that the best person, who can cater to health problems is a medical expert only. It is more or less proven that general practitioners are far better than the medical experts in solving the healthcare problems of around 70 percent of our population. The only way left, to make this programme an achievement is to encourage and engage more and more local people of villages to get involved in their own and their community’s healthcare solutions, which will ultimately result in a more healthy and self empowered India.
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