In India, a majority of the disabled resides in rural areas where accessibility, availability, and utilization of rehabilitation services and its cost-effectiveness are the major issues to be considered.
The Outreach program is back bone of Campus Challenge. There we connect the rural community to the Campus Challenge. It is taking care of 850 vulnerable children living in remote Fishing and Tribal areas.
The following team, Doctor, Health worker, Physiotherapist, Orthopedic and Prosthetic technicians, Special Educators and the Social workers are serving the needy children through our Medical care center.
The Social workers are in the field closely working with the vulnerable community. Identification, preparation of the case studies, information to the Medical team, organizing Medical camps, Medicine Distribution, Awareness meetings etc... are the major responsibilities of the social workers.
The Doctor visits weekly to the children who were bed ridden and prescribing medicines and nutrition supplements. Also organize medical camps in the villages and delivering medicines, nutrition supports, Assistive devices to the needy children.
An important task of the Outreach team is creating awareness and providing information to parents and communities to bring down the rate of occurrence of disability.
Orthotics involves precision and creativity in the design and fabrication of external braces (orthoses) as part of a patient’s treatment process. Prosthetics involves the use of artificial.
limbs (prostheses) to enhance the function and lifestyle of persons with limb loss. The Orthopedic workshop is the State of the art work shop at Campus Challenge. Here two staff members, who are disabled themselves, understand the children very well and are well trained at Mobility India, Bangalore. These technicians design the orthotics and prosthetics with the guidelines of Orthopedic Doctors. The Orthopedic and Prosthetic devices needed frequent maintenance because, children are growing and their muscles size also increasing and it will require little corrections.
The follow-up system was in place and improved. The clients was reminded a week before to attend the corrections and replacement. Once in a week the technicians follow the doctors to see the clients at their door step.
For children with physical disabilities they can often spend their day in the same position or positions that can have a variety ways that can affect their health even more that it is already. From higher risks for illnesses to the effects of a sedentary life, disabled children can benefit from the use of physiotherapy.
In the morning session, children from the villages are bringing to campus for Physiotherapy service. In the afternoon session, residential children and youngsters have the floor at the physiotherapy.