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HIGHLIGHTS OF THE ACTIVITIES CARRIED OUT SO FAR
- 6 dioceses completed 1st round of Comprehensive Health Plan facilitated by Dr. Christopher Nathan, the Public Health Consultant of NECHA.
fig: Fr. George Parackal
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- A two days training programme on “New Trends in HIV & AIDS Management” was conducted by NECHA & CRS on 18th & 19th April 2007. Dr. Christopher Nathan, the Public Health Consultant of NECHA and Dr. Barman, The deputy director of State AIDS Control Society, Assam, were the resource persons of the programme. The training was conducted for the health care service providers.
fig: Dr. Christopher Nathan
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- Fr. George Parackal from Dimapur Diocese joined NECHA as its New Director succeeding Fr. Lazar Kakkassery of Dibrugarh in the month of November 2006.
fig: Sr. Jocelyn SMI
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- Dr. Christopher Nathan joined NECHA as its public Health Consultant in the month of November 2006.
- Sr. Jocelyn SMI Joined NECHA as its Administrator in the month of February 2007 succeeding Sr. Gulielmina SCCG.
- NECHA took initiative to identify and bring the cleft-lip and cleft- pallet children to Down Town Hospital, Guwahati, Assam, to get the benefit of free operation done there, under the ‘Smile Care Project ‘. Over 30 children were taken care of so far.
Number of our Member Institutions in Shillong Arch Diocese are involved in treatment, control and eradication of rickets.
- Awareness Programmes on HIV / AIDS were conducted at:
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Shillong on the 25th & 26th of January 2008 |
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Kuamarikatta on the 28th & 29th of January 2008 |
- The Executive Board meeting of NECHA was held th 5th of February 2008 where the Ecclesiastical Advisor to NECHA Rt. Rev John Moolachira of Diphu Diocese was also present.
- Dr. Christopher Nathan left for Hyderabad 22nd of April 2008, after having successfully served NECHA for 2 fruitful years.
- Integrated Rural Women Upliftment and Child Care programme was launched on the 1st of July 2008 in 10 villages of Chandrapur area of Kamrup district of Assam. The project has been able to give direct employment to about 20 educated unemployed women as well as benefits to thousands of other villagers of the area.
- Mr. Pradeep Hazwary joined NECHA on 1st of July 2008, as a Coordinator for the project on ‘Integrated Rural Women Upliftment and Child Care’ being implemented in Chandrapur.
fig: Mr. Pradeep Hazwary
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- Four (4) Free Health Check up Camps were organized in the village areas for Chandrapur to help the poor needy villagers who were deprived of the basic Govt. health facilities, in the months of August & September.
fig: people attending the Free Health Check up Camps in Chandrapur.
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- Dr. Pratul Kr. Adhikari joined NECHA as the State TB Coordinator from CHAI – CBCI, for Assam in the month of October 2008. A Project on “TB Programme for Assam” that was funded by ‘Global Fund’ was also launched in the same month.
fig: Dr. Pratul Kr. Adhikari
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- Comprehensive Diocesan Health Plan: 2009 – 2012, for the six dioceses of Aizawl, Bongaigaon, Diphu, Imphal, Shillong and Tezpur have been prepared as planned in the Future Strategies of the Organization for decentralization of its diocesan units, and forwarded to the respective sponsoring agencies for further actions.
- Mr. Basant Rabha, Programme Coordinator of NECHA, after more than 4 years of dedicated services to the organization, left NECHA for his new assignments on 1st of December, 2008. We are very grateful to Mr. Basant.
fig: MR. Basant Rabha
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- A Free Eye Check up Camp was organized at Don Bosco School, Chandrapur, with technical supports from the Doctors of Sri Sankaradeva Nethralaya, Betola-Guwahati on the 25th of January 2009. Several Cataract patients were detecxted during the camp and they later on operated at Sri Sankaradeva Nethralaya Eye hospital, Guwahati. NECHA is have happy to have been able to support these needy people.
fig: The Free Eye Check-up Camp at Chandrapur.
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- Two days grass root level workshops on “Improving Health in India through Capacity Building, Advocacy & Networking”, were conducted in the 5 MIs (Member Institutions) of NECHA viz.- Chandrapur & Kumarikatta of Assam and Nongpoh, Jongksha and Mawkyrwat of Meghalaya, in the months of January and February 2009.
fig: participant of 2days Grass root level workshop of different MIs of NECHA
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- A two days Regional level Workshop on “Improving Health in India through Capacity Building, Advocacy & Networking”, was conducted at NECHA Office cum - Training Centre on the 14th & 15th of March 2009. Several well-known Doctors and other prominent personalities from Assam facilitated the workshop.
- Mr. Pradeep Hazwary, Project Coordinator, left NECHA, due to his new assignment with UNICEF, in the month of March 2009. the organization is very grateful to him for his dear services rendered during his term in NECHA.
- Mr. Sanjib Soren joined NECHA as the new Coordinator in the month of April 2009
fig: Mr. Sanjib Soren
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- The sponsorship programme from Stitching Liliane Fonds for the differently abled people, particularly children, is one of the major initiatives undertaken by NECHA to really help the most needy but neglected ones directly. Presently, about 67 differently abled children are being facilitated by NECHA for their treatment, education and rehabilitations in the different centre of Assam and other states of Northeast India. More children are the roll. A Heartfelt Thanks to IMS – Varanasi for facilitation and support for the programme.
fig: Differently abled people in lighter moods (World Disabled Day Celebration)
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- Construction of a new Administrative –cum- Residential Training Centre is underway and due to be completed by April 2009. The center once completed will open up more opportunities to conduct different levels of training programmes, meetings, seminars and workshops. The center will also have free lodging facilities for the differently abled people along with their parents / guardians, who are under the sponsorship of the organization, when need arises for them to come to Guwahati for treatment purposes.
fig: The NewAdministrative-cum-ResidentialTrainingCenter under construction.
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SERVICES
NECHA renders immediate health and relief services to the flood affected people, & people affected by ethnic violence and malaria.
Helps also rendered to identify suitable resource personnel for handling health related topics.
Health Centres |
Beds |
Total MIs |
Health Centre-1 |
0 |
155 |
Health Centre-2 |
1-6 |
64 |
Health Centre-3 |
7-10 |
5 |
Hospital-1 |
11-24 |
5 |
Hospital-2 |
25-49 |
2 |
Hospital-3 |
50-74 |
1 |
Hospital-4 |
75-100 |
1 |
Hospital-5 |
101-125 |
1 |
Hospital-6 |
126-150 |
1 |
Hospital-7 |
151-200 |
1 |
D.S.S. |
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11 |
Others |
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28 |
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Total: 275 |
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