Bella Health Care Charitable Trust (BHCT)

BHCT aims to decrease fertility rates, unwanted pregnancies and other reproductive morbidities to curb the mortality rate. The NGO is making this possible through a proper family planning programme and by improving the quality of health services and addressing health disparities within the community.

Activities during FY11-12:

• Patient outreach: BHCT reached out to 15,000 patients and distributed approximately 167,019 medicines among them.
• Services: Services that BHCT caters to include gynaecological, maternal, contraceptive, reproductive cancer & HIV, health education, etc.
• Health vans: State of the art mobile health vans visit 16 villages twice a month. A van constitutes 2 doctors, 3 nurses, 3 educators and 8 ASHA (Accredited Social Health Activists) personnel. Each day 40 to 80 patients are examined for disorders and are given treatment.
• Krishna clinic – This clinic to provide high quality care to patients was set up in the Nehru Colony of Dehradun. This clinic has IUD insertion facility which is unavailable in the mobile vans.
• Women’s Health awareness: Women are educated on subjects related to reproductive and sexual health through Janani Suraksha Yojana programmes under the National Rural Health Mission (NRMH).
• Children’s Health awareness: In order to educate children on health care, BHCT has tied up with three primary schools in Dehradun viz. Garhwal English Medium School, Bal Vihar School and Ranjeet English Medium School. 590 students were enrolled in this initiative.
• Fundraising activities: Bella Health Care in association with People for Animals (PFA) organised a fundraising event ‘Run for a Beautiful Doon (R4BD, a first Biannual Run)’ to raise awareness on environment and animals.