Youth For Healthy Mumbai

United Way Mumbai has been working on community health issues to collectively adopt a strategy for addressing key health issues in the city by eliciting active community participation and facilitating public-private partnerships. Youth for Healthy Mumbai is a citywide campaign in response to the increase in the incidences of monsoon ailments in the city every year during the monsoon season. The campaign was conceptualized and spearheaded by United Way Mumbai in partnership with the municipal public health department and the National Service Scheme (NSS) of the University of Mumbai in 2010. 

Every year the monsoon season brings along increased number of infections and increased burden on the public health system. The public health system in Mumbai city has a strong infrastructure in place for catering to the need for treatment of patients in big numbers. However, the system requires support from the NGOs and the community for ensuring wider outreach for preventive education of the masses in the city in order to prevent and control the spread of any of the monsoon related ailments. 

In 2013-2014, 1 in every 676 persons had Malaria. The malaria fatality rate remains high with 1 death in every 94 cases diagnosed for Malaria. Similarly, in the last three years (2011-14) the number of deaths due to Dengue have risen from 52 to 74 and in 2015 to 108. There has been a 59% rise in Typhoid cases in the MCGM dispensaries/hospital, state hospitals and other government dispensaries/hospital compare from 2012-2013 to 2013-14. During 2013-14, 1.2 lakh residents suffered from Diarrhoea and 255 died due to it. 

 

Youth for Healthy Mumbai was a campaign to address the issue of lack of awareness on Malaria and Dengue. UWM in partnership with Dept. of Public Health, Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai and NSS Cell of Mumbai University carried out citywide awareness drives during monsoon 2015. The campaign was supported by SD Welfare Trust. Under the campaign, college youth trained as Peer health Educators conducted various awareness activities e.g. Rallies, Street Plays, House to House interactions, pamphlets distribution etc. More than 1000 college students from 29 colleges conducted 147 awareness drives in 6 vulnerable wards of Mumbai city covering more than 170,000 population.

 

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