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Little Doctors: Indian Youths' Unique Health-Care Program |
| Section: CULTURE / PEOPLES |
| Author: Mathias Tugores |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 6/1/1995 |
| Size: 1,905 Words, 12,226 Characters |
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More often than not, the medic who called at the door of an ailing, usually impoverished, resident was an eleven-or twelve-year-old child.
Since 1986, boys and girls in Malavani have been playing doctor for real by participating in the Child-to-Child program, in which youngsters provide primary health care and education to adults and other youths. When school is over (children in India attend only half a day) and during holidays, they visit the families that are in their charge.
"I look after two families, including my own," says Ganesh, a lean twelve-year-old Hindu boy. "I have learned how to diagnose diseases. If someone gets sick, we treat them, but we also explain how to avoid disease."
Despite some early missteps, the program has proven successful in fighting health scourges...
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...ed by the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, which visits once a week. Adoption of a rural village in the vicinity of Bombay is also under way.
Charts hanging on the walls of the health-care center bear "before" and "after" figures. The data clearly indicate that, in Malavani, the World Health Organization's bold challenge--"Health for all by 2000 a.d."--is about to be realized.
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