Preventive health awareness - Savera | Fortis Charitable Foundation

About SAVERA

SAVERA focuses on providing access to preventive and remedial healthcare education for a range of stakeholders through various channels of communication like publications, audio-visual communication, children’s books, pictures and posters, catering to diverse target groups.
It seeks to provide a platform to share research, findings and trends, creating awareness on critical health issues and works to drive opinion towards viable options.
A focus of the SAVERA program is also to create a credible knowledge repository of healthcare and wellness information that can be accessed and used by all.

HEALTH INFORMATION REPOSITORY
Tobacco Control
FIRST AID AND BASIC
LIFE SUPPORT TRAINING
HEALTH INFORMATION
THROUGH ILLUSTRATIVE
BOOKS
ASHRAY Clinic
Smoking Cessation
Clinic

HEALTH INFORMATION REPOSITORY

Over the years, our network of Fortis Hospitals, diagnostic labs and retail pharmacies has generated a vast quantum of information on preventive health and cure. The SAVERA programme aims to develop a platform for collating, hosting and sharing this data, publications, and audio visual content that will be easily accessible. The idea is to create a credible data repository that can be utilised for health research including activities such as analysing emerging health trends and shifts that can serve as an early warning system to help initiate meaningful policy interventions.

A better understanding of disease terminology, symptoms and medicine usage norms can also help facilitate better administration of treatment pathways and reducing chances of error and risks.

In collaboration with our partners, SAVERA seeks to create a library of such literature which is simple to understand, in multiple languages and address the literacy and understanding levels of all audiences. While created with medical inputs, the objective it to demystify the content and convert the same into a language and style which ensures clarity in understanding.

For Health Information Literature please click here

Tobacco Control

Activities done as a part of SAVERA intervention on Tobacco Control :

Sensitization of District Police Heads of 7 districts i.e. Gurugram, Faridabad, Sonepat, Jhajjar, Hisar, Panchkula and Ambala
Designated Nodal Officers in all 7 Districts
Challan books printed in 5 districts and training of SHOs in 3 Districts. 4582 Challans in Gurugram.
Sensitization of more than 1800 officials of Education Dept. in 2 divisional workshops
Sensitization of over 2000 Police Officials
Sensitization of police officials on a regular basis

Tobacco control people touched (launch:Nov 2016)
Ytd (2016-17) : 3800
April 2017 : 1980
May 2017 : 1168
June 2017 : 4840
July 2017 : 900
August 2017 : 50
September 2017 : 53
October 2017 : 30
November 2017 : 1312
December 2017 : 189
January 2018 : 1326
February 2018 : 48
March 2018 : 150
YTD (2017-18) : 12,046
April 2018 : 62
May 2018 : 52
June 2018 : 80
YTD 2018 : 194

Challans for Tobacco Usage
April 2017 : 245
May 2017 : 957
June 2017 : 840
July 2017 : 1147
August 2017 : 336
September 2017 : 424
October 2017 : 971
November 2017 : 1050
December 2017 : 13877
January 2018 : 5784
February 2018 : 5960
March 2018 : 3834
YTD (2017-18) : 3,5425
April 2018 : 2182
May 2018 : 3839
June 2018 : 2758
YTD 2018 : 8779

First Aid and Basic Life Support Training

Statistics claim that 17 people die every hour on Indian Roads and 46 children die every day on Indian Roads. Over 10 LAKH people have been killed in road accidents in the past decade.

50% of road accidents could have been avoided if rapid assistance was rendered.

There is limited awareness about the number of lives that can be saved through knowledge of First Aid and Basic Life Support training. In the current situation, this is not seen as critical.

First Aid Training (AHA) in June 2017: 10

First Aid Training (AHA) in July 2017: 75

First Aid Training (AHA) in August 2017: 39

First Aid Training (AHA) in September 2017: 80

First Aid Training (AHA) in October 2017: 191

First Aid Training (AHA) in November 2017: 58

First Aid Training (AHA) in December 2017: 64

First Aid Training (AHA) in January 2018: 20

First Aid Training (AHA) in February 2018: 0

First Aid Training (AHA) in March 2018: 0

First Aid Training (AHA) in YTD 2017 : 537 (Includes Police Personnel - 114)

First Aid Training (AHA) to Police Personnel in April 2018: 140

First Aid Training (AHA) to Police Personnel in May 2018: 122

First Aid Training (AHA) to Police Personnel in June 2018: 103

First Aid Training (AHA) to Police Personnel in YTD 2018 : 365

HEALTH INFORMATION THROUGH ILLUSTRATIVE BOOKS

SAVERA specialises in using simple, creative communication techniques that have a high recall to spread awareness about a variety of heath related concerns with the ultimate goal of creating healthier lives especially for the economically weaker sections of society. It also seeks to position an open platform for sharing healthcare research and analysis in order to bring information into the public domain with the objective of driving informed choices regarding healthcare policy.

Distribution Books
Ytd (2016-17) : 19709
October 17: 200
November 17: 125
December 17: 760
January 18: 400
February 18: 20
March 18: 60
YTD (2017-18): 1565
April 18: 20
May 18: 0
June 18: 200
YTD 2018: 220

Distribution PIL
Ytd (2016-17) : 59950
April 17: 64500
May 17: 14500
June 17: 100100
July 17: 73000
August 17: 26000
September 17: 6000
October 17: 8000
November 17: 5000
December 17: 10500
January 18: 10500
February 18: 500
March 18: 8000
YTD 2018 : 326600
April 18: 0
May 18: 0
June 18: 25
YTD (2017-18): 25

Dho Dalo
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Brushing Is No Fun
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The Boink Mystery
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Kaun Bola Boink
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Ding Ding Rahasya
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Nutrition in Pregnancy-English
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Nutrition in Pregnancy-Hindi
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ASHRAY Clinic
Malnutrition is defined as lack of proper nutrition, caused by not having enough to eat, not eating enough of the right things, or being unable to use the food that one does eat. In India proportion of underweight was 59.5% in 1988- 92 and is still 45% in 2015. Indian underweight children are contributing 42% of the world underweight children. Percentage of low birth weight (<2.5gm) in India is 50%.
INTERVENTION: ASHRAY CLINIC
This initiative will be taken up in one of the Rural Health Training Centre of the department of Community Medicine and will be extended to other centers
Beneficiaries:
Pregnant & Lactating women and Children below 5 years.
Activities:-
Ante-natal and Post-natal care of mothers
Growth monitoring for each child will be conducted every three months
Counseling of mothers with objective of changing their behavior for adopting good practices of nutrition and health.
Ashray Clinic (No. of Children Registered)
July 2017 : 12
August 2017 : 11
September 2017 : 17
October 2017 : 14
November 2017 : 0
December 2017 : 0
January 2018 : Discontinued
YTD December 2017: 54

Smoking Cessation Clinic
RATIONALE
Smoking harms nearly every organ of the body. Cigarette smoking causes 87% of lung cancer deaths. It is also responsible for many other cancers and health problems. These include lung diseases, heart and blood vessel diseases, stroke and cataracts. There are approximately 120 million smokers in India. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), India is home to 12% of the world’s smokers.
Expected Outcomes:
To achieve best possible quit rates, quit attempts & smoking reduction
Smoke Cessation Clinic (launch:June 2017)
April 17 :
May 17 :
June 17 : 17
July 17 : 3
August 17 : 15
September 17 : 17
October 17 : 8
November 17 : 4
December 17 : 3
January 18: Discontinued
February 18: 0
March 18: 0
YTD December 17: 67