PRESENTER:

A.PRABHAKARAN M.Sc (N)

TUTOR,
VMACON
SALEM
Subject- Community Health Nursing –
II
• Definition : An organization that is
administered by an autonomous board
which hold meeting, collects funds for its
support chiefly from private sources &
expends money, whether with or without
paid workers, in conducting a programme
directed primarily to furthering the
public health by providing health services
or health education, or by advancing
research or legislation for health, or by a
combination of these activities’’
Functions
 Supplementing the work of government
agencies
 Pioneering- ways & means of doing new
things
 Education
 Demonstration
 Protecting citizen’s health
 Development of well balanced community

health programme
 Group planning and coordination

(duplication)
 Advancing health legislation(litigation

public law)
 The Indian Red Cross Society was
established in 1920.
 It has a network of over 400 branches

all over India.

 It has been executing programmes for

the promotion of health, prevention of

disease and mitigation of suffering
among the people.

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ACTIVITIES :-
(a)RELIEF WORK
When disaster strikes any part
of the country in the shape of earth-
quakes, floods, drought, epidemics, etc.,
the Red Cross Society immediately
mobilizes all its resources and goes to
the rescue of the affected people.

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(b) MILK AND MEDICAL SUPPLIES :
A number of hospitals, dispensaries,
maternity and child welfare centres,
schools and orphanages receive
assistance from the society every year.
The assistance given consists mainly of
milk powder, medicines, vitamins and
other supplies.

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(c) ARMED FORCES :
The care of the sick and the wounded
among the members of the forces is
one of the primary obligations of the
Red Cross. The Society runs a well-
equipped hospital, 'the Red Cross
Home' in Bangalore the only one of its
kind in India and the Far East for
permanently disabled ex-servicemen.

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(d) MATERNAL AND CHILD WELFARE
SERVICES
There are a large number of
maternity and child welfare centres all
over India, either directly administered
by or are affiliated to the Red Cross.
There is a bureau of Maternity and Child
Welfare, which provides technical
advice and financial aid to schemes for
establishing model maternity and child
welfare centres.
(e) FAMILY PLANNING
Several States in India are running
family planning clinics under the
auspices of the Indian Red Cross.
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(f) BLOOD BANK AND FIRST AID
Some of the State branches have
started blood banks. The St. John
Ambulance Association in India which
is part of the Red Cross has trained
several lakh men and women in first
aid, home nursing and allied subjects.

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 Established -1952, single largest
agency, promoting development
services for child.
 Network all over India
 Focus- Child welfare & development
 Promote enactment of legislation &

reform

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 Advocating Children's Rights
 Creches for children of working and

ailing mothers
 Training programmes for child care
workers
 Sponsorship for School Education of
under-privileged children
 Inspection

(Scrutiny) of Adoption Cases

 Rehabilitation of Abandoned Children 11
 Institutional and day care services for
differently abled children
 Programmes for children in difficult
circumstances
 Programmes with special focus on
the girl child
 Education Centres and Support

Services
 Honouring Children for Bravery
 Honouring Child Artists
 National Integration Camps/ Adventure

Camps

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 Family Planning Association of India
 Founded in Bombay 1949
 Devoted to promoting knowledge family

planning as basic human right &

population policies
 Voluntary commitment to advocate for

SRH, Rights and choices.

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 Head quarters-Mumbai
 38 branches,4 project areas,30 integrated rural
project
 FPAI- programme on information, education,
motivation. MCH, training & research
 Activities – education of school college students
& youth workers
 Help couples to plan spacing & number of
children
 FPAI-Organizes conferences, seminars,
workshop
 Set up Family Life And Marriage Counselling
 Address reproductive & sexual concerns
 STD/AIDS prevention

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 Sex education, counseling, research,
training/therapy (SECRT) centres
 Specialized services on family life,
marriage & sex counseling . Prevention
and counselling of STI/AIDS
 Sexual health programme for youth,

parents, educators, disabled &

mentally handicapped
 Training courses & workshop on human

sexuality

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 Tuberculosis Association of India(TAI)

 Hind Kusht Nivaran Sangh(HKNS)

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 Established on Feb 23 1939
 Incorporating the King Emperor's Anti-

Tuberculosis Fund and King George

Thanks-giving (Anti-Tuberculosis) Fund.
 Headquarters – New Delhi, branches in all

states

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- organizing a T.B. Seal campaign every
year to raise funds
- Training of doctors & health workers in
the control of TB
- publishes periodicals related to TB
- conducts annual conferences,
encouraging research on TB

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 Following institutions are under the
management:
- The New Delhi Tuberculosis Centre
- The Lady Linlithgow Sanatorium at
Kasauli
- The King Edward VII Sanatorium at
Dharampur
- Tuberculosis Hospital at Mehrauli

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• Found in 19 Aug 1949
• Headquarters - New Delhi, branches all
over India
• By Indian Council of the British Empire
Leprosy Relief Association (B.E.L.R.A)
it was come to form in 1950.

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- financial assistance to leprosy homes
& clinics
- health education through publications
& posters
- training to medical workers &
physiotherapists
- conducts research & field
investigations
- holds periodic leprosy conferences
- quarterly journal “ Leprosy in India”

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 For Non-communicable Diseases

All India Blind Relief Society

• Established – 1946
• Main function – relief of blind
• Works in co-ordination with different

institutions working for the blind

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Activities :
-Eye camps for identification of
preventable blindness
- Cataract surgery camps(recently with
IOL implantation)
- Free spectacles for refractory
correction

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• Established – august 1953
• The founder Chairperson of the Board,
Dr. Durgabai Deshmukh
• Autonomous body under Ministry of
education

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• Functions :-
- surveying the needs & requirements
of voluntary welfare organizations
- promoting & setting up of social
welfare
- financial aid to deserving
organizations
“ Family & Child Welfare Services ”-
initiated 1968

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• Short stay home programme-started in
1969 to provide temporary shelter to
women and girls,
-who are forced into prostitution
- Family tension made to leave homes
due to marital disputes
-Sexually assaulted
• Scheme of industrial co-operatives –
lower middle class women

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• Created 1945
• Commemoration of Smt. Kasturba
Gandhi
• Activities- improving the lot of
women(rural) through gram-sevikas
- various other welfare projects

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• Only women’s welfare organization
• Established – 1926, Margaret Elizabeth
• Dedicated for upliftment & betterment
of women & children
• Running – MCH clinics
medical centres
adult education
centre(female literacy)
milk centres
family planning clinics

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For rural health Bharat Sevak
Samaj
 Is a non official non political
organization
 Set up in 1952
 Helps people to achieve health by the

own efforts & actions

 Main activity- improvement of

sanitation in villages