Manav Seva Sansthan

United News Service

Fatehpur. The cultural team of Manav Sewa Sansthan conducted a mass awakening campaign in 11 villages of Malwan development block for reducing infant and maternal mortality rate through limited curative health services in unserved and remote areas.

While on one hand the folk singer Karan Singh Albela included in the cultural team sensitised the rural people for protection of pregnant women and infants through his folk tunes, on the other magician and caricaturist Maiyadeen Vishwakarma hit at the superstitions and stereotypes prevailing among women to motivate and make aware them to access modern health facilities. He also shook the villagers to get rid of discrimination and neglect being committed with women.

The mass awakening campaign was conducted by the programme in-charge Hemraj Singh. He said that with the assistance of UPHSDP the organisation has established a health centre at Budhaiyapur Majre Rena. This will be inaugurated by Dr DP Srivastava at 2.00 in the afternoon on September 5. The health centre will provide health services to nearly 8,000 people through its doctors.

Raj Kumar, Vimla, Nadim, Rani Dev, Raghavendra and Abishek Singh, volnutary social workers of Bukoli, Basaunapur, Dubki, Chachikheda, Mirmau and Paigambarpur villages, respectively, particularly cooperated in the mass awakening campaign.

(Translated from report published in Hindi daily United Bharat, September 5, 2006)