 Commissioned in favour of the Sangha by the Sushila Birla Memorial Institute, the Mobile Healthcare Unit has been working efficiently in the Sangha's adopted rural areas since 1989. It is equipped with the most sophisticated medical gadgets like portable X-Ray machine, slide projector, pathological materials along with medicine and a generator set. A team of mobile staff comprising of a full-time Medical Officer, Pharmacist, Supervisor and two lady volunteers, visits the rural centres taking these sophisticated medical aids at the door-steps of the rural people. A small car accompanies the team to cover the interior villages. Thus, it may be compared with a well equipped Primary Health Care Unit on wheels through which all the essential eight components of Primary Health Care Programme of WHO are being delivered to some cluster of villages of rural West Bengal. Quite naturally, a major portion of the Sangha's service activities are catered through this Mobile Unit which visits five rural centres by rotation every week and stays three days at a stretch at each Centre.
  
There, besides serving the patients, it renders the following routine services as well:
- Audio-visual slide projection on various health aspects
- Mother and child health care
- Immunization
- Nutritional supplemenatation therapy programme
- Conducting door-to-door home visits
- Imparting training/refeshers to Volunteers/Community Health Guides
The Mobile team meets every Thursday after return from a centre to report to the Co-ordinator about the services so far extended. The Co-ordinator in turn analyses and discusses the problems, if any, faced during the previous week. The Sub-committee of the Sangha with the responsibility of the Mobile Healthcare Unit meets every month with a view to ensure efficient and effective running of the unit.
| Services
rendered through Mobile Healthcare Unit ( 2009 - 2010 ) |
| Centres
& Sub-centres |
Number
of homes visited |
Number
of beneficiaries |
Number of patients treated |
| C.D.
Show |
School Students |
Group
Meet |
| Khanpur |
1,289 |
4,624 |
357 |
1,691 |
4,632 |
| Gopalpur |
652 |
5,399 |
130 |
1,349 |
2,902 |
| Somsar |
814 |
5,422 |
184 |
1,324 |
2,553 |
| Bhangar |
331 |
2,873 |
- |
632 |
2,475 |
| Naora |
558 |
2,518 |
209 |
871 |
2,377 |
| Panitras |
293 |
1,808 |
155 |
420 |
1,132 |
| T
o t a l |
3,937 |
22,644 |
1,035 |
6,287 |
16,171 |
| Source
: Annual report 2009-2010 |
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