Mother and Child Project

• Sri Sathya Sai Easwaramma Women’s Welfare Trust Annual Report

  “Instruct the women of the villages on the basic principles of child health, child care and child training. When health fails, people become despondent and even desperate. When health prevails, vitality pervades both mind and body.” – Sri Sathya Sai Baba

  The Trust has been sending out mobile medical teams to the villages every month for the past decade. In the camps, the volunteer doctors... Read More >>

• Mother and Child Paediatrics

  The Paediatric section of the medical camps is always very well-attended, and usually outnumbers the Obstetrics section. For Paediatric care, the doctors and nurses have extended their care beyond infants to young children above the age of one year. Both mothers and children are weighed at the camps and the head circumference of infants is recorded to double-check for normal development. Vitamin and mineral supplements are distributed to both mothers and... Read More >>

• Mother and Child Obstetrics

  The local pregnant population lacks high protein, calcium and vitamins in their daily diet. Hence, hematinics, calcium with vitamin D, vitamin B Complex with Zinc, Folic Acid tablets and high protein powder packets are dispensed to them throughout their pregnancy and postnatal period. The high protein powder is prepared in the Sri Sathya Sai Easwaramma Women’s Welfare Trust kitchen.

  Overall, anaemia and high blood pressure in pregnancy has been ... Read More >>

• Mother and Child Project

  The Trust has been sending out mobile medical teams to the villages every month for the past decade. In the camps, the volunteer doctors (obstetricians and paediatricians) give prenatal and postnatal check-ups to pregnant women. Paediatricians examine and treat newborns to children up to 12 years of age. Para Medical staff assists the doctors in the camps.

  Minor problems are treated in the camps; more serious problems, when identified, are referred f... Read More >>