Thursday, December 20, 2012

HAL Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

                              Outreach Health Programs in Karnataka. 

As part of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), HAL Bangalore is associated with Trinity Care Foundation focusing on Outreach Health Programs in Bagepalli Taluk, Chickaballapura District, Karnataka. 

The Health Programs are focusing on Orthopedics, Gynaecology, Dermatology, Diabetology, Cardiology, Pediatrics, Ophthalmology and Dentistry. Bagepalli Taluk has high incidence of Fluoride in ground water.


Inauguration 

Children Screening

Health Screening

Dental Treatment 

Public Health Professionals

Trinity Care Foundation is a Non Governmental Organization focusing on Craniofacial SurgeriesSchool Health and Outreach Health Programs in Karnataka, India.
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Wednesday, December 19, 2012

The Companies Bill, 2012


The Lok Sabha on Tuesday 18th December 2012 gave its approval for the Companies Bill 2011, paving the way for a new modern company law.

The Companies Bill 2012http://www.mca.gov.in/Ministry/pdf/The_Companies_Bill_2012.pdf

The proposed legislation will replace the existing Companies Act 1956, which was enacted 56 years ago. The Companies Bill 2012 was passed by a voice vote in Lok Sabha in a marathon late night sitting. Besides making independent directors more accountable and improving the corporate governance practices, the Bill seeks to make corporate social responsibility mandatory for certain companies.


 Corporate social responsibility

The Companies Bill proposes that profit-making companies that meet certain conditions will be required to set aside 2 per cent of the net profit towards CSR. Mr. Sachin Pilot, Minister of State for Corporate Affairs  said India would become the first country to mandate corporate social responsibility (CSR) through a statutory provision. “While framing rules for the legislation, the government will take in to confidence MPs and other stakeholders, like NGOs. It’s an evolving idea. We will make compliance easy,” he said.


Under the new legislation, companies will be encouraged to create employees’ welfare fund. “Severity of law is not deterrent; it is surety which is deterrent. The companies may engage in promoting education, reducing child mortality and any other matter they feel can contribute for social welfare, he added. Under the new law, the CSR spending would be the responsibility of companies like their tax liabilities. The Bill, with 470 clauses, seeks to make CSR spending compulsory for companies that meet certain criteria. Firms having Rs.5 crore or more profits in the last three years have to spend on CSR activities. One of the major proposals is that companies have to mandatorily spend 2 per cent of their average net profit for CSR activities. The changes, once in place, would amend the Companies Law that has been in force since 1956. 

Trinity Care Foundation is a Non Governmental Organization focusing on Craniofacial SurgeriesSchool Health and Outreach Health Programs in Karnataka, India.
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Sunday, November 25, 2012

Cleft Lip and Palate

Cleft lip and cleft palate are birth defects that affect the upper lip and roof of the mouth. They happen when the tissue that forms the roof of the mouth and upper lip don't join before birth. The problem can range from a small notch in the lip to a groove that runs into the roof of the mouth and nose. This can affect the way the child's face looks. It can also lead to problems with eating, talking and ear infections.

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Treatment usually is surgery to close the lip and palate. Doctors often do this surgery in several stages. Usually the first surgery is during the baby's first year. With treatment, most children with cleft lip or palate do well.

Trinity Care Foundation is a Non Governmental Organization focusing on Craniofacial SurgeriesSchool Health and Outreach Health Programs in Karnataka, India.
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Tuesday, November 20, 2012

HAL CSR Activity

Outreach Health programs are important tools for bringing health education and screening services directly to community members and serve to contribute to reducing health disparities.They assist communities and hospitals to reach mutually beneficial goals that would otherwise not be achievable for promoting accessible and equitable care.
We had conducted an Outreach Health Program for Madhakavarapalli Village, Bagepalli Taluk, Karnataka on Saturday, 17th Nov, 2012 in association with HAL focusing on Orthopedics, Gynaecology, Dermatology, Diabetology, Cardiology, Pediatrics, Ophthalmology and Dentistry.
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Trinity Care Foundation conducts such programs in rural areas of Karnataka, India.
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Monday, September 17, 2012

Outreach programs

Outreach programs are important tools for bringing health education and screening services directly to community members and serve to contribute to reducing health disparities.They assist communities and hospitals to reach mutually beneficial goals that would otherwise not be achievable for promoting accessible and equitable care.
Many developers of outreach programs are not aware of their audiences’ literacy level as well as the major cultural norms and boundaries that support or impede community members’ behaviors relating to screening, early detection and prevention.
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Cleft Palate

Cleft palate (split of the roof of the mouth) are common congenital deformity. It occurs when the separate areas of the face that develop individually and then join together, do not join properly. Cleft palate is an opening in the roof of the mouth. It occurs when the two sides of the palate do not fuse as the unborn baby develops.



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Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Outreach Health Program in Channapatna Hospital

On the 28th of July 2012, the Trinity Care Foundation conducted a free medical camp in the government hospital in Channapatna, Karnataka. This medical camp aimed at identifying patients from the region with facial deformities who required surgical procedures to rectify them.

Trinity Care Foundation worked in conjunction with government health officials in order to organize this event. Health Workers from villages in the district were directed in advance to escort patients with facial deformities to this camp. In order to spread the word about the camp, the foundation organized press releases in local newspapers and also put up advertisement posters in and around the town.  Additionally, a regional TV network was asked to cover the event itself.
Consultation
A team of 11, including doctors as well as interested observers from other organizations, set out from Bangalore early in the morning and arrived at Channapatna hospital, the site of the camp at around 10:45 am.

Once there, the team began examining patients – who consisted mostly of young children and middle aged adults – to determine the extent of their deformities and decide on a possible course of action to correct these problems. These patients, led by their Health workers attended the camp after travelling from villages as distant as 60 km from the hospital.
Health Workers
ASHA Workers
The team distributed toys – like plastic flutes, rubber pencils and even colouring books – as well as candies among the patients to help them feel comfortable during the process of examination. Nearly twenty people were examined for facial deformities, which included cleft lip and palate problems, misaligned parts and even locked jaws. The doctors explained to each patient – and in many cases, parents and other relatives of these patients as well – exactly what procedures needed to be done to cure them of their deformities. While the team had anticipated a problem in convincing patients of the need for surgery, there did not appear to be any such issue. Each person examined was given a diagnosis and a prescription sheet, and some patients were also asked to come into Bangalore for a surgery on a given date.
The camp closed at 1:30 pm, after every single patient had been observed. Trinity Care Foundation hopes to build on its successes by organizing another such camp soon. Patients who require surgery will be treated at hospitals in Bangalore. 
Trinity Care Foundation is a Non Governmental Organization focusing on Craniofacial SurgeriesSchool Health and Outreach Health Programs in Karnataka, India.
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Tuesday, July 3, 2012

World No Tobacco Day 2012 Theme


Trinity Care Foundation organized an Anti Tobacco Program on June 15th 2012 on the World No Tobacco Day Theme 2012.  “Tobacco Industry Interference” was the theme.

The Health Team from Government of Karnataka Health Department, Trinity Care Foundation and M.R Ambedkar Dental College were present in the KSRTC Bus Stand Kanakapura Town, Ramanagara District, Karnataka, India for providing Health Services to the General Public.

Health Education 
The Program intended to create awareness among  the people about the harmful effects of tobacco consumption highlighting the ill health effects of smoking to both smokers and non-smokers. An Oral Screening with Health Education on the evils of tobacco was given  to the patients and their attendants. Patients were given education about the risk factors associated with tobacco consumption and smoking.



The Program focused  on :
1. Health Education –  ill effects of Tobacco
2. Oral Screening -  Diagnosis and Referral to   M.R Ambedkar Dental College for Further Treatment
3. Dental Treatment – Minor Treatments on the Mobile Dental Unit

World No Tobacco Day 2012 will educate policy-makers and the general public about the tobacco industry's nefarious and harmful tactics. Tobacco industry interference is the theme of this year’s World No Tobacco Day. 
Oral Screening 

The campaign will focus on the need to expose and counter the tobacco industry's brazen and increasingly aggressive attempts  to undermine global tobacco control efforts. The campaign will focus on the need to expose and counter the tobacco industry's brazen and increasingly aggressive attempts to undermine the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) because of the serious danger they pose to public health.

Tobacco use is one of the leading preventable causes of death. Each year, the global tobacco epidemic kills nearly 6 million people. It is on a track to kill more than 8 million people by 2030, by which time approximately 80% of the deaths would occur in low and middle income countries.

A tobacco ban on tobacco marketing can substantially reduce tobacco consumption and consequently tobacco related deaths and disease. We have to look into the causes of tobacco usage and think of new strategies to curb it, said  Dr. Umashankar G K, Trinity Care Foundation.
Dental Treatments

Many patients were diagnosed with oral dental pre-malignant condition and lesions like oral sub-mucous fibrosis, leukoplakia, tobacco quid lesion, smokers palate. Complete oral was done and many patients received treatments on the Mobile Dental Unit stationed at the Bus Stand. 

Counseling Sessions were also discussed with patients and their attendants.The Program was initiated by Government of Karnataka Health Department, Trinity Care Foundation and M.R Ambedkar Dental College.

Trinity Care Foundation is a Non Governmental Organization focusing on Craniofacial SurgeriesSchool Health and Outreach Health Programs in Karnataka, India.
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012

World No Tobacco Day 2012


       World No Tobacco Day (WNTD) is commemorated on 31 May every year. The theme for this year’s (2012) WNTD is “Tobacco Industry Interference”.

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World No Tobacco Day 2012
The campaign focuses on the need to expose and counter the tobacco industry's brazen and increasingly aggressive attempts to undermine the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC).

World No Tobacco Day 2012 will educate policy-makers and the general public about the tobacco industry's harmful tactics.

It will also be in keeping with the letter and the spirit of the WHO FCTC. The preamble of the treaty recognizes "the need to be alert to any efforts by the tobacco industry to undermine or subvert tobacco control efforts and the need to be informed of activities of the tobacco industry that have a negative impact on tobacco control efforts".

On World No Tobacco Day 2012, and throughout the rest of the year, WHO will urge countries to put the fight against tobacco industry interference at the heart of their efforts to control the global tobacco epidemic.

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Friday, March 16, 2012

Outreach Health Programs


Community outreach programs is an important vehicle for reducing the discovery-delivery disconnect by bringing health education and Health screening services directly to community members. Such programs are consistent with the priority areas of Trinity Care Foundation initiatives for reducing health disparities.

Outreach programs are important tools for bringing health education and screening services directly to community members and serve to contribute to reducing health disparities.They assist communities and hospitals to reach mutually beneficial goals that would otherwise not be achievable for promoting accessible and equitable care .




Community Health Program focusing on the rural poor. A Team of Public health professionals consisting of Physician, Pediatrician, Gynecologist, Ophthalmologist and Dental surgeons visit the rural areas of Bangalore Rural and Kolar District and provide valuable service. Medicines are distributed at free of cost. 
Trinity Care Foundation is a Non Governmental Organization focusing on Craniofacial Deformities, School Health and Outreach Programs in Karnataka, India. We work in synergy with the Education Department of Karnataka (known as DPI) and Health Department, Karnataka to implement Outreach Programs.
Reach us at : support@trinitycarefoundation.org 

Some of the Public Health Programs of Trinity Care Foundation are:
There is Medical Check-up for the Students in the Village Government School and also for the Teachers and Parents of the Students. Medicines are distributed along with Dental Treatments ( Scaling, Restorations and Extractions). Medical team consists of Physician, Pediatrician, Gynecologist and Ophthalmologist. Dental Team consists of Public Health Dentists along with a Mobile Dental Unit which has 2 high- tech dental chairs.