Awareness Building On Rational Use of Medicines

This is a continuation of Jagruti’s proposal titled “Making Medicines Affordable”.

Give2Asia’s support has been instrumental in making Jagruti’s dream a success, in setting up an affordable drug outlet in the town of Dharwad. This October 2020 the drug outlet will complete two years of its operation. This proposal is in continuation of this initiative started by donations from Give2Asia.

Since last one and half year the “affordable medicine outlet” has gained popularity and common people have started questioning the doctor from whom they get prescriptions. This has undoubtedly started questioning the drug-doctor nexus.

The Medicine Outlet now has two full time employees.

Inauguration of the Medicine Outlet in 2018

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ಮಕ್ಕಳ ಹಬ್ಬ

೨೫ ಡಿಸೇಂಬರ್ ೨೦೧೯ ರಂದು ಇಟಗಿ ಗ್ರಾಮದಲ್ಲಿ (ಖಾನಾಪುರ ತಾಲೂಕ್), ಕಲ್ಮೇಶ್ವರ ಗುಡಿಯಲ್ಲಿ “ಮಕ್ಕಳ ಹಬ್ಬ” ಜರುಗಿತು. ಸುಮಾರು ೪೦೦ ಮಕ್ಕಳು ೧೫ ಗ್ರಾಮಗಳಿಂದ ಬಂದು ಭಾಗವಹಿಸಿದರು. ನೃತ್ಯ, ನಾಟಕ ಹಾಗೂ ಹಾಡುಗಳನ್ನು  ಪ್ರದರ್ಶಿಸಿದರು. ಯಾವುದೇ ಕ್ಯಾಸೆಟ್ ಹಾಕದೇ ವಿವಿಧ ಪ್ರದರ್ಶನಗಳನ್ನು ತೋರಿಸಿದ್ದು ಈ ಮಕ್ಕಳ ಹಬ್ಬದ ಒಂದು ವಿಶೇಷತೆ. ಸ್ವಚ್ಛ ಭಾರತ, ಸಾವಿತ್ರಿ ಬಾಯಿ ಫುಲೆ ಹಾಗೂ ಲಿಂಗ ಸೂಕ್ಷ್ಮತೆಗಳ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ನಾಟಕಗಳಿದ್ದವು.

Guna Mukhi

Guna Mukhi

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GUNA MUKHI reconstructs the narrative of how a dalit women’s collective movement in a small village in Belgaum district of Karnataka defied class, caste and gender barriers and rose up against the failing public health system.

The film draws from the rich and first hand experiences of the village women who, with the support of various village level peoples’ organisations and activists, stake claim to their health entitlements.

The film concludes by asserting the importance of people’s struggles in creating functional, responsive, people-centric health care systems and in the larger context of holding the State accountable for its duties and responsibilities towards its citizens.

This film was one of the outcomes of the efforts to address the issue of health as a human right and taking forward the issue of revitalising the public health system by various state and national level networks and activists.

Karnataka state unit of the People’s Health Movement(JAA-K) screened this film extensively to intensify their Health as a Human Right campaign. It was used in various training programs for health activists who found the film inspiring and drew ideas from it to carry out similar actions to get their local government health centers functioning.