Niramaya

The Health and Wellness Resource Center

 

'Niramaya", the Health and Wellness Resource Centre of AYUSH and Local Health Traditions was created in 2019 by Jeevaniya Society to promote Public Health concepts among AYUSH practitioners and promoters as well as people in general and to generate documentary evidence for validating the effectiveness of AYUSH through our program Mission Arogyakar, with financial support from Mission Samriddhi

Vision

To establish a Health and Wellness Resource Centre for AYUSH in Public Health primarily for Uttar Pradesh and North India.

Mission

To establish a Health and Wellness Resource Centre for AYUSH in Public Health in order to provide easy access to authentic information to consumers and a platform to its practitioners and promoters to promote and establish the effectiveness of AYUSH for Health & Wellness.

Objectives

Also, it aims to bridge this knowledge gap besides developing Modules, preparing IEC Material and conducting Training and Awareness Programs for the same. The Centre, therefore, has the following objectives:

• To provide a learning and sharing platform for AYUSH Practitioners, Promoters & Citizens.
• To conduct trainings and workshops on AYUSH for Health. It aids in conducting village level baithaks, monthly reviews, and trainings, TOTs, Webinars for related issues to bring awareness about Knowledge of Indian Health Systems to all.
• To develop mass communication IEC material on AYUSH in digital as well as Print forms for promotion of AYUSH.
• To develop documentary evidence to validate the effectiveness of AYUSH in Public Health and generate People’s confidence in AYUSH for Health & Wellness.

Implementation Strategy

Besides the resources of Jeevaniya Society, the Resource Centre Niramaya utilizes the existing infrastructure of the various Central as well as State Government & Private AYUSH institutions. The Centre not only caters to the State of UP but also to the entire Hindi speaking North India. The Centre has mobilized existing resources and developed a resource pool of experts for the various activities of the Resource Centre. The IEC material developed in Hindi has made far reaching impact and spreads the knowledge of AYUSH for Public Health to the masses.

The Resource Centre organizes Knowledge sharing workshops on various themes of Health & Wellness for all sections of the society.

It offers training to all concerned on setting up and using Sehat Bagichas as (Nutrition & Herbal Gardens), AYUSH practices for Public Health.

It prepares IEC Material and shares the same with partner organizations & public at large.

Collective of practitioners & Promoters of AYUSH: (CAPP)

We have built a Collective of practitioners & Promoters of AYUSH (CAPP) to tackle Health Problems of the interested people withby using AYUSH for Healthy life. The collective also provides a platform to AYUSH practitioners to share and learn from each other as well as develop documentary evidence for Public Health interventions. Felicitation programs have been organised for AYUSH Practitioners to celebrate their achievements in Public Health A citizen's forum has been established to share their positive experiences of AYUSH.

Some Webinars

Marm Chikitsa & Awareness Camp

Mission Arogyakar

We decided to set up a Health & Wellness Resource Centre, Niramaya to promote the useof Indian Knowledge Systems of Health, including AYUSH and Local Health Traditions (LHTs), for Public Health and Healthy Life.Niramaya has undertaken programs to generate awareness about the role of AYUSH in Public Health & Healthy Life with Physicians & Promoters, as well as at community level in general. Mission Arogyakar (MA), a Pilot program for self-reliance in Primary Health was launched largely in 2021 in selected rural areas of 8 districts of UP. Because of its positive impact on the use of AYUSH for common health problems in these districts of UP, MA has been initiated by grass-root organizations in Betul, MP, Jaitu, Punjab and Wardha & Yavatmal in Maharashtra.

IEC material viz. Videos, Banners and Pamphlets on Healthy Life were produced, based on authentic information from Indian Knowledge Systems of Health, including AYUSH & LHTs and used to generate awareness amongst people. Use of locally available material as well as Manpower of AYUSH & LHTs has been encouraged for self-reliance in the management of primary health problems in the rural areas under Mission Arogyakar. Support of requisite inputs of seeds and planting material has also been provided to set up Health Gardens (Sehat Bagichas) for hand holding the MA initiative.

Besides posting IEC material on immunity building and Management of Covid as per AYUSH, for its Collective of AYUSH Practitioners & Promoters (CAPP) and Citizen's Forum, several Books, Booklets, Pamphlets and Banners were printed and distributed.

Mission Arogyakar - A virtual meeting was conducted on 21st June, 2021 with 11 partner organisations of UP to discuss the capacity building plan for Mission Arogyakar. After the initial agreement of the partner organizations on the program, 4 virtual Training Sessions were conducted on July 10-13, 2021 with heads, some AyuMitras and facilitators of 9 selected districts where Mission Arogyakar’s objectives and implementation strategy was discussed along with knowledge sharing on role of AYUSH & LHTs in making rural Uttar Pradesh self-reliant for primary health care. Later, a physical training was conducted on 17th and 18thAugust, 2021 in Lucknow with AyuMitras and Facilitators from 8 districts on Concept, Objectives & Program details of MA.
AYUSH ki Chaupals and Field visits were regularly conducted for more than 5,000 families in 8 districts of UP where a primary surveywas conducted in 2021-22 and follow up survey was conducted in 2022-23. Our team regularly visited the gram panchayats in these districts with the district coordinators and AyuMitras from the respective GPs. Jaagrukta Baithaks were conducted in the villageswith our IEC Material & family health gardens were set up by more than 2,000 households. Health camps were also conducted in collaboration with District AYUSH Dispensary physicians and the local health practitioners where Jeevaniya team also participated.

Impact of Mission Arogyakar - The Follow up Surveys conducted by the Coordinators & Ayu Mitras have shown that there has been a positive impact of this program in all the 8 districts of UP towards increased use of locally available AYUSH Resources for household management of common health problems during the implementation of MA. Learnings from our experience in UP has encouraged several Government as well as Community organizations from other States viz., MP, Maharashtra, Punjab and Bihar to implement the MA in their villages. They have not only started implementing it in the selected villages of their State but also propose to expand it further. Our team of Jeevaniya Society has been helping all of them through training their Master Trainers and providing soft support of the IEC & other material.