sundarbans health watch - series 1: how healthy are the children of the indian sundarbans?
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Professor Barun Kanjilal of IIHMR and the FHS India team outlines findings from the first Sundarbans Health Watch. The findings are from several in-depth studies into the health situation of children in a representative block of the Indian Sundarbans -- Patharpratima. The full report is available on the FHS website -- www.futurehealthsystems.org.TRANSCRIPT
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How healthy are the children of Indian
Sundarbans?
The First Health Watch report1st August, 2013
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What Future Health System (FHS) research initiative wants to do? • Generate and push streams of evidences on the health
service delivery system in the Sundarbans especially for children.
• Create a knowledge platform to generate new ideas on how to provide better health services to disadvantaged children
• Strengthen capacity of interested partners (govt, non-govt, and development agencies) to design and evaluate new interventions.
• The first Health Watch report, based on a series of recent studies, is a step towards this direction.
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• To generate knowledge on - The child health needs- Gaps in protecting child health rights- The barriers to access of health care services for
children
• Find out ways by which health care system can be made more effective in the Sundarbans
Focus of the report
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• Primary data collected from one block (Patharpratima) through
Household survey (focused on children) Facility assessment Exit interviews RMP interview Ethnographic studies and case studies
• GIS mapping of all providers• An earlier FHS report on Sundarbans
(2009) based on data from all 19 blocks.
Data
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Sundarban Patharpratima
Sundarban (19 blocks)
Patharpratima block
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• 4.5 million people• Subsistence agriculture and forest /river products• Chronic poverty with dualistic development • Difficult to access• Man-nature conflict • Environmental threat
The human face of the Sundarbans
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Key findings-IChild health
status
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1. Under-nutrition prevails at high level
Indicator Moderate or Severe
Severe
Under weight (%) 38.6 12
Stunting (%) 35.2 11.7
Wasting (%) 25.2 8.6
The prevalence of stunting may be as high as 60% if the child is a girl, aged 1-3 years, and born in a poor household
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Predictors of undernutrition
Mother’s health Geography
Stunt
ed
Was
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20
30
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DeltaicNon-deltaic
% o
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ren
<18.5 18.6 - 24.99
>250
10
20
30
40
5041.5
34.3
24.5
Mothers’ BMI
% o
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Stunt
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Poor Non-poor
% o
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ild
ren
Food security
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2.Extra burden of morbidity
Diarrhea
Fever
7.8%
38.6%
5.4%
30.3%
6.7%
28.9%
Morbidity burden among 0 to 6 year children in the last 30 days (self-repor-
ted)
West Bengal
S24 Paraganas
Sundarbans
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Environment-linked ailments hold the major share
RI48%
Gastro14%
Skin5%
Non-specific
15%
Other18%
Distribution of cases based on reported symp-
toms
RI31%
Gastro37%
Other32%
Distribution of cases based on reported
hospitalization
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Key findings-IIChild health rights:
from a child’s viewpoint
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Right 1: My mother should have adequate health and nutrition when I am inside her
Good progress in ANC, but low coverage of supplementary nutrition during pregnancy and PNC
FHS 2012
FHS 2009-10
DLHS3(WBENGAL)
% who had ANC during pregnancy
98.6 95.7 96.1
% who had ANC in the first trimester
60 60.3 42.5
% that received PNC 50 23.8 56.9
% received supplementary nutrition during pregnancy
62 53.2
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Right 2: I should be born in a safe environment and at a safe hand
• About 53% of the births were delivered at home (last 5 years). The rate reduced to 46% in 2011-12.
• Only 5% of home deliveries were assisted by qualified professionals.
• 3 out of 4 illiterate mothers delivered births at home assisted mostly by untrained hands.
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Right 3: I should receive very special care during the 1st month followed by full preventive care
• At least a quarter of all children aged 1-12 months took births and spent the first week of their lives without any supervision from any health worker.
• 87% of the children (12-23 months) were fully immunized, but timeliness needs attention.
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Right 4: I should be fed according to the universally accepted good feeding practice
0-12 months0%
10%
20%
30%
40%43%
40%
0-12 months
0%
10%
20%
30%
40% 34%
28%
BoysGirls
% of children of age 0-12 months who were immediately breastfed after birth
% of children of age 0-12 months who were exclusively breastfed for 5-6 months
Boy Girl
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Right 5: I should be taken to a ‘proper’ doctor when I am ill and require ‘treatment’.
RMP Govt. Facilities
Pvt. Qualified
% of ailing children used the services of
85.1% 4.1% 6.4%
Median Distance travelled (km)
1 3 12
Median Travel Time (min)
15 25 80
Median Out of pocket Expenditure (Rs)
220 460 550
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Hospitalization
• Hospitalization rate of children 5.4% (in a year)
• 75% of them were admitted in public hospitals
• But only 1/3rd of them were treated at local BPHC
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Right 6: I should receive regular supplementary nutrition during my childhood.
Weighing every month
Regular AWW Visit
Registered
Vit- A Supply
59
51
77
25
46
44
72
25
58
56
81
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% of children received services through ICDS (0-2 years)
Deltaic Non- Deltaic Total
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Children 3-6 years: mostly irregular or non-user of ICDS services
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Regular39%
Far off; 27%
No company; 14%
No use; 12%
Other; 9% WHY?
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Key findings-IIIChild health care: by whom,
how much, and where?
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Public health network is grossly inadequate for comprehensive child care• Sub-centres are adequate but mostly address preventive
care
• Number of PHCs and BPHC are inadequate, but more importantly, due to lack of critical inputs, not all of them properly function
• Facilities are not adequately child focused
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The parallel (underground) providers fills in the gap
• Overwhelming dominance of RMPs in curative care
• Easy availability, instant medicine, proximity, and people’s trust make them a formidable competitor
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GIS MAP- PATHARPRATIMA
KAKDWIP SDH
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GIS MAP- PATHARPRATIMA
BPHC (1) PHC (3)
KAKDWIP SDH
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GIS MAP- PATHARPRATIMA
BPHC (1) PHC (3) SC (65)
KAKDWIP SDH
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GIS MAP- PATHARPRATIMA
Rural Medical Practitioner
BPHC (1)
PHC (3)
SC (65)
RMP (376)
No of persons per Govt. Doctor (>35000)
No of persons per RMP (900)
KAKDWIP SDH
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Quality of care of RMPs: unregulated, questionable and often puzzling• RMPs: Up-to-date knowledge about modern medicines
• But quite incompetent in diagnosis and rational use of drugs
• 47% of RMPs could not correctly answer a single question (total 5 questions) about ‘how a newborn should be cared’.
• They successfully hide their incompetency by making their clinical procedures visibly indistinguishable from that of qualified providers.
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Many NGOs but too little for child health • About half of the NGOs working in Patharpratima
are committed to health care (totally or partially)
• But, except for a few nutrition care initiatives, child health is not really focused.
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Unique geographical challenges compound the barriers to access health facilities• The deltaic topography makes it extremely difficult for the
people to access health facilities.
• People living in the remote islands have to depend on multi-modal transportation.
• The costs in terms of time and transportation are often prohibitively high.
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Indrapur PHC
Madhab Nagar BPHC
Sitarampur Ghat
Patharpratima Ghat
Aswinimaity Ghat
Kali bangal Ghat
Chandmari Ghat
By Road
By Boat
River cross
Boat Ghat
TIME: 70 MinutesTIME: 77 MinutesTIME: 107 MinutesTIME: 127 MinutesTIME: 147 Minutes
Day Fare:20 INR
Night Fare:450 INR
Day Fare:22 INR
Night Fare:550 INR
Day Fare:37 INR
Night Fare:
800 INRDay Fare:
39 INRNight Fare:
1100 INR
Day Fare:46 INR
Night Fare:1200 INR
TIME: 10 Minutes
Day Fare:
7 INRNight Fare:
100 INR
TIME: 100 Minutes
Day Fare:
19 INR
Night Fare:2300 INR
TIME: 115 Minutes
Day Fare:
26 INRNight Fare:
2400 INR
VIRTUAL JOURNEY- PATHARPRATIMA ROUTE 1ROUTE 2
ROUTE 1TIME: 147 MinutesDay Fare:
46 INRNight Fare:
1200 INR
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Climatic shocks trigger ill health and malnutrition
• Direct effects • Indirect effects
Loss of livelihood
Migration of male members
Alternative livelihood seeking by mothers
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Summary: the gaps
• Basic (quality-assured) curative care
• Nutritional care – institutional and at home
• Neonatal care - institutional and at home
• Referral linkage
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Way forward….
• Bring Child Focused Lens in public health Programs.
• Effective partnerships with development agencies and Non-state actors.
• Stimulating, identifying and up scaling innovative health programs using low-cost modern technology.
• Providing usable scientific evidence for better decision making.
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Special thanks • Riddhi Uddalak • Sabuj Sangha• Mr. Dilip Ghosh, Ex Special Secretary, DoHFW• Dr. M N Roy, Ex Principal Health Secretary, DoHFW• Terre Des Hommes, Save the Children, CRY• Health officials of District South 24 Parganas and
Patharpratima block • People and many other organizations of the
Sundarbans
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THANK YOU