Doctors conduct basic check ups

328 family planning operations in a single day. With this feat, the Centre for Family Initiatives broke its own 25-year-old record for the maximum number of operations conducted in a single day at the Centre. Attributing the achievement to the joint effort of the doctors and the staff, who refused to turn away even a single patient registered for the operation, Ms Anamika Sharma, Manager and In-Charge of camps said, “the new goal at Family Initiative is not to turn any Laproscopic Tubectomy case customer back without performing the operation. The ladies come from far flung rural areas and if not attended to in the first time they do not return back.”

The doctors hard at work at the camp

Dr R A Balsara, Dr Kamini, Dr Kameshwari, Dr Neeta and Dr Pratima worked tirelessly the whole day to ensure that this objective was fulfilled. They started their day at 8:30 A.M. and continued until 9:30 P.M.

The Centre for Family Initiatives delivers its sterilisation services via camps held at the Centre itself and mobile services for sterilisation in outreach camps.

Ladies are registered at the health check up camp

“Sterilisation provides a unique opportunity for diagnosing and treating women as well as raising reproductive health awareness” explains Dr Jagannath, Head, Family Initiatives.

Tata Steel has played a pioneering role in the development of family planning and welfare measures in the country. The company launched its first initiative in the early 1950s, much before the Government was alive to the problem. The company’s former Chairman, Bharat Ratna J R D Tata had foreseen the problems India would face if its population was allowed to continue to grow unchecked. It was at his urging that the Government of India first took up its family planning initiatives.

Second Rural and Tribal Sports at Noamundi   Mr A D Baijal inaugurates the Meet as Mrs Shakti Sharma and Mr Avinash Prasad look on The Second Rural and Tribal Sports Meet was held at Noamundi on February 10 and 11, 2004. Inaugurated by Mr A D Baijal, Vice President, RM & IM, Tata Steel, 300 tribal athletes comprising teams sent by NGOs from Orissa and Jharkhand participated in the event. “These meets are an opportunity for the local talent, particularly the tribal youth to create a bright future for themselves through their association with sports,” Mr Baijal said during his inaugural address. Expanding on Tata Steel’s involvement in this area, Mr Avinash Prasad, General Manager, OMQ said it is due to Tata Steel’s support that many tribal athletes have achieved national stature. The vote of thanks was delivered by Mrs Shakti Sharma, Head, SS & FI.