Extension Centers

Activities:

The activities can be divided into two broad areas viz. Extension centres and the service projects The work being done in each of these two areas is summarised below.

Extension Centers :

There are 5 Extension Centres manned by medical and paramedical staff to cater to the referral needs of the community in Anand and Kheda districts of Gujarat as listed below:

Most of the centres were actually health centres/hospitals run by the local trusts/NGOS/Government institutions in past. But as they could not manage the respective health centres/hospitals well, they were handed over to CAM for effective administration and management. Thus, the infrastructure for the centre is provided by the trust representing the community and CAM provides the manpower, logistics and technical inputs for providing quality health care services. A fixed amount of financial contribution is provided by the trust/NGO/Government institution on a yearly basis for three of the centres to meet the expenditures of running the centres.

The services available at each of these centres are described below:

Figure 1 : Anand Kheda distric t map showing the Extension centres and Extension Programme Villages where the Cancer Prevention and Care Programme (CPCP) is being implemented