Manipal :

Kasturba Hospital, Manipal and Manipal Haemophilia Society is organizing a one-day training program for ASHA workers and ASHA mentors for identifying persons with bleeding disorders in four districts of Karnataka at community health centre (CHC) , Kota in Udupi district on Thursday. Dr Ramachandra Bairy, district health and family welfare officer, Udupi will inaugurate the programme at the Kota CHC.

Kasturba Hospital, Manipal Haemophilia Society and Manipal University have initiated a project ‘IDEEA’ (Identification, diagnosis, education and empowerment for action) which is funded by Nova Nordisk Hemophilia Foundation, Switzerland. The project IDEEA aims at identification and diagnosis of all cases of bleeding disorders in the four districts of the state namely – Udupi, Dakshina Kannada, Chikmagalur and Shimoga.

Lecture cum discussion will be organised to train ASHA workers on bleeding disorders. After the training, ASHA workers are expected to do house to house survey and identify persons with bleeding disorders at the earliest stage. All suspected persons with such disorders will be referred to the Hospital for further evaluation and treatment at a subsidized cost. Around 3,000 ASHA workers from neighbouring districts will be trained as a part of this project.

The authorities plan to cover a population of 56 lakh spread  over four districts. Manipal Haemophilia Society is a registered chapter of Haemophilia Foundation of India, New Delhi and affiliated to World federation of Haemophilia, Canada. It functions from Kasturba Hospital here. Manipal Hemophilia Society is involved in identification, diagnosing and providing comprehensive care to persons with haemophilia and von Willebrand disease.

source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / Home> City> Mangalore / by Jaideep Shenoy, TNN / December 12th, 2012