Medical Health – Everyone’s right :

Bhubaneswar, Orissa’s capital is a major railway hub of the East Coast. It attracts a countless number of impoverished, homeless and unemployed families. Migrating from rural areas to the city in search of work, these families congregate on the vacant lands. Many of them live on the pavement or railway station. Disease and sufferings, drugs and alcohol, poverty and destitution are the plight of over 300,000 people who live in the slums and on the street.

The soaring prevalence of disease and mortality rate in destitute and the people living on the street in consequence of poor nutrition, inaccessibility of medical care, absence of any physical support and money, and ignorance of preventive health issues is a matter of great concern. Every individual in our society has a right to survive and be protected from the hassles of disease.

India recognizes the incidence of high disease and mortality rate in the slum people especially the young children, malnutrition in the children, high mortality and morbidity rates as a result of frequent child bearing and poor nutrition of their mothers. Sahaya seeks to ensure the survival, protection, and the healthy development of children in the society as well as the promotion of reproductive health and well being of women and adolescents.

Sahaya acknowledges the need of these neglected folks with emergency medical care and basic amenities required during their treatment. It also links them to a long term rehabilitation or restoration to their families.

It has been working among the destitute, addicts, sick and dying people underneath the railway flyover in Bhubaneswar, near the State Bus Terminus or at the railway hubs of the city. It also rescues and rehabilitate the victims of road accidents. While the most serious cases from among the streets get immediate attention and first aid at the spot, those requiring long-term rehabilitation are also helped for the same. Its work is finished when the patient is restored to his/her family or rehabilitated at any destitute home.

Patient Information Centre :

Sahaya acknowledges the needs of poor ignorant people who come to Capital Hospital for specialized medical service. These uninformed people are often failing to spot the hospital wards, get correct medical information and facilities. On the other hand, a number of patients die without a bottle of blood and some medicine. No body comes forwards to help a penniless patient. It also has been observed that many patients do search for an attendant since they have no body to look after them during their treatment at the hospital.

In response to the above needs Sahaya runs a patient information and assistance service at the Capital Hospital. It provides the poor and needy patients all possible services and supplement the work of hospital. The aim is to render a better service and care to the poor patients with a joint endeavor of Sahaya and the Capital Hospital authority.