MEDICAL CAMP - AMBALATHADI VILLAGE

     On  19.08.2015 a medical camp was conducted in Ambalathadi village jointly by GHCL  Private Limited,Paravai, Department of Sociology &Social work, Fatima college, SKG  Multispecialty hospital and Dr.Agarwal’s  eye hospital, Madurai. The objective of this medical camp is to have a complete physical health checkup for all the villagers of all age group. The camp was started at 9.00 AM in the community hall of Ambalathadi village. The MSW students played the role of volunteers in the camp.

           The medical check-up for the following ailments are done in the medical Camp :

·         Blood pressure

·         Hyper tension

·         Diabetes

·         Asthma & other breathing troubles

·         Uterus problems for women

·         Wheezing

·         Visual impairment

·         Hearing problems

·         Knee pain & back pain and other general physical ailments.

            The MSW students made the propaganda about the medical camp in the village and they brought all the villagers to the community hall. The students assisted the old age people and physically challenged people to reach the place of medical camp.

              The primary school students of Ambalathadi village and all the middle school students of Sambakulam village attended the medical camp. On the whole, 478 people attended the medical camo.The MSW students organised the entire program in a systematic way where many students are identified with anemic and breathing troubles. Required medicines had been provided to the physically ill school children and they were instructed to come for follow up. The MSW students learnt the art of organising, crowd management and the process of conducting a community programme.

 

 

DRUG ADDICTION AMONG YOUTH IN MADURAI DISTRICT OF TAMIL NADU

“Drug addiction is a preventable behaviour and it is a treatable disease”

Department of Sociology and Social Work, Fatima College (Autonomous) and ROOTS – a Non Government Organization did a study in Madurai on drug addiction among youth .The objective of the study is to find out the products used as drug and also the reasons for consuming drugs. Students studying 9^th standard to 12^th standard in various schools in Madurai District are observed and necessary interaction was made with the students and teachers of the school.

The study reveals that, there are many forms of drugs  used by youth such as formal drugs  like alcohol, cigarettes, tobacco (ganesh, supari) abin, tablets and injections and  informal drugs  like smelling petrol, kerosene, whitener, milk over with anabond solution, water packet cover with pvc solution, balloon with pvc solution, cool drink with anacin, cigarates with pain relief ointment (zandu bam, vicks).

Prominent findings:

·         The behavior of the students explicit the usage of drugs.

·         The girl students also use the formal drugs

·         The sports students use informal drugs with the thinking that it will boost up their energy.

·         Nearly 25 per cent of the students are drug addicts

·         The teachers are not able to control the students consuming drugs.

Findings relating to reasons for consuming drug

·         Orphan and poor parenting

·         Father being drug addict

·         To increase the body weight.

·         Peer group pressure

·         Beauty consciousness

·         Status improvement

It has felt by the people who made the study is to create awareness among the school students about the ill effects of drug consumption and also required counselling has to be provided for the affected students.

OBSERVATION OF WORLD POPULATION DAY

The World Population day is an annual event observed all over the world on every July11 for the purpose to create awareness about the issues of global population. This day is being observed from the year of 1989 on which the Global population reached five billion. Every year the United Nations announce the theme for observation and the theme for the year 2015 is Vulnerable Population in Emergencies. 

India is one of the third world countries which is highly affected by over population. India’s current population is equivalent to 17.5% of the total world population and it is the second highly populated nation in the world. India’s population is 1210.2 million which is almost equal to the combined population of USA, Indonesia, Pakistan, Brazil, Bangladesh and Japan. All age group people like children, women, youth, and old age people are facing problems directly or indirectly due to the unplanned birth of children. It is high time to control the unnecessary child birth and it is the responsibility of everyone to propagate the ills of excess population and also the goodness of having optimum population.

The Department of Sociology and Social Work of Fatima College observed the World Population Day on July 10, 2015 and created awareness to the college students and to the people of seven villages in Madurai District about the evils of over population. The chart work about the statistics of population in developed and developing countries, reasons and consequences of over population, environmental pollution, decline in the quality of life due to population, physical and mental health issues were displayed all over the college campus.

The students went for a rally inside the campus where the students participated by dressing like of pregnant women and young mothers. At the end of the rally, the students enacted a street play which projected the problems related to transportation, unemployment, getting basic commodities like food and water due to uncontrolled population in our society. The street play insisted on having child by choice and not by chance.

The street play was performed in the villages of Sholavandan, Tiruvedagam, Thenur, Oormechikulam, Kallikudi, Sathyamoorthy Nagar and Paravai Government Higher Secondary School. It was well received by the villagers especially by the women. The students of Paravai Government Higher Secondary School gave a overwhelming response and promised that they would the spread the message to the family members and friends about the purpose of observing World Population Day.