Regular field clinics in all villages.

All new-born babies in all villages are seen within a week from their birth.

Checkups for all children under 5 years old once a month.

Out patients and inpatients at the Tribal Hospital for treatment and surgery.

The most crucial achievement of 2000 was the setting up of the field clinics and establishing its pattern.

Each village would be visited once every six weeks by a team of doctors, HWs and a lab technician.

The HAs would already have done the preliminary work of weighing babies and collecting all the pregnant women.

During the clinic, all these antenatals would be checked up as also all children under five.

After this would follow a session of storytelling and discussions with the villagers regarding health as well as other local issues. This exercise has drawn us much closer to the villagers, and helped us to look at their lives as well as their illnesses in a better light. A significant achievement of this exercise has been the jump in antenatal checkups from 11% to about 85% now.

The doctors now go for postnatal visits to all villages once a week in a focused effort to reduce newborn deaths.