Community Health Intervention Program (CHIP) to benefit over 70,000 people across 50 villages of Puspatirega Mandal
Dr Reddy’s has announced that its Community Health Intervention Program (CHIP) will be extended to a larger region in Vizianagaram district of Andhra Pradesh. CHIP was launched in 2013 in partnership with Neonatal Intensive Care and Emergencies (NICE) Foundation and since then it has reportedly improved access to primary healthcare, with special focus on reducing the mortality rate of infants and children in more than 54 villages of Ranastalam Mandal of Srikakulam district.
The launch of the programme in Puspatirega Mandal is expected to benefit over 70,000 people residing in more than 50 villages of this region and improve basic healthcare for the village community. It will enable ante- and post-natal care, safe delivery and infant care, primary immunisation of children by the age of one, and safe motherhood. CHIP will leverage the expertise of well-trained ANM, GNMs and nursing midwives, in addition to two mobile ambulances, to deliver healthcare to these villages. The programme also entails a Fixed Day Health Care Service (FDHS), where doctors conduct regular screening and attend to basic health issues on predetermined days, twice every week in each village.
As part of the launch programme, Satish Reddy, Chairman, Dr Reddy’s Laboratories and MM Nayak, IAS, Collector & District Magistrate, Vizianagaram, flagged-off two mobile medical vans, in the village.