Chidbhavanandha Rural Education & The Rural Health Centre – Veerapandi

The following camps are organized on monthly basis to serve the community

Preventive Medicine

1. Diabetic awareness & detection Camps
Outpatients: Every Saturday Diabetic Outpatient clinic functions
2. Revised National Tuberculosis Control programme

Our centre is a designated microscopy centre for diagnosis of Tuberculosis

• Case Holding for full course
• Home visit wherever needed
• TB awareness healthy education camps
• House to house survey and sputum collection for Microscopic examinations

Pediatric General Medical Camp for Anganwadi and School children is organized with support from Paediatricians practicing in the surrounding areas.

• Dental Check up and Dental Health education
• Awareness on Tobacco abuse
• Mass de-worming
• Activities for school children

In co-ordination with Mathampalayam Primary Health Centre, Pulse Polio Immunization is organized every year.

Community Oncology was inaugurated at our centre on 24.6.2011 by the then Coimbatore Corporation Mayor Sri R. Venkatachalam.

Cancer screening camps are conducted for Head & Neck, Breast and Cervix every month in each ward of selected Panchayat by trained team members. The camps are organized in following process house to house survey, enumeration, awareness programs, motivation prior to screening camp. Through this rapport is developed with the community people. Their myths & misconceptions about cancer, its investigations and importance are educated to them. As a result they walk in to the camp voluntarily.

Clinical Breast examination, Visual inspection of the cervix with Acetic acid (VIA), Visual Inspection of Cervix with Lugol Iodine (VILI) is carried out by trained staff and doctors and further follow up for treatment is referred to GKNM Hospital at a concession rate or free of cost based on their economic status.

• Colposcopy has been installed at our centre on 27th March’2015
• Care HPV Analyzer was also installed at the centre on 10th July’2015

We provide medical treatment for the following old age homes

• Zion Illam, Selvapuram with inmates of around 25 members
• Anandham Old age Home, Press Colony with inmates of 30 members

Selvapuram, a nearby village with a population of about 5,000 is adopted and comprehensive health care is given to the village. We have a sub-centre at this village and the team visits every Tuesday Morning.

Regular outpatient process

• Health check up
• Consultation
• Investigation
• Treatment
• Health education
• Counselling
• Review

The following investigations are done at the rural center

Free services provided as follows

• Consultation and Review
• Treatment
• Basic investigations
• Health education
• Medicines
• Preventive medicine

Other Free services offered

• Physiotherapy – every Wednesday
• Dental – 1st & 3rd Wednesday
• Paediatric – every Wednesday
• Tobacco Cessation Clinic – Every Wednesday
• Free yoga class by both male and female instructor for diabetic and other patients every Saturday.