Prevalence Of Anemia, Its Diagnose, Causes and Treatment: - A Case Study of Faridabad District In Haryana

Epidemiological information and disease prevalence studies have always been vital for planning control strategies and monitoring the impact of interventions to control such diseases. The present study is an outcome of a medical camp done under the aegis of PMGY an NGO model worldwide. Being assisted by hospitals and clinics run by the state and philanthropists, the NGO provides charitable medical services, free treatment, free medicines, and even free food and clothes to underprivileged sections of society. Keeping in view the mission of the NGO, and the poor mass of underprivileged people, this study has been devised to assess the prevalence, symptoms, causes and treatment of anemia in Faridabad mostly for two reasons. Firstly, because the locality is the operating field of the NGO and secondly, because anemia is at the highest prevalence, as found in our first observation of patients coming to the slum outreach camps and clinics under study. This will help make effective strategies of intervention, control and dissemination of health-related awareness & better preventative care and treatment to the target group i.e. the poor and underprivileged sections of the society. This cross-sectional study focuses on residents of the Faridabad district who were clinically assessed and treated for free. Seven rural and 19 urban clusters where nearly 750 people with underprivileged backgrounds came forward for the study. People with ongoing ailments were assessed alongside healthy individuals who required regular health checkups with utmost precaution to prevent community transmission. The treatment protocol revolved around palliative and curative treatment for symptomatic cases and preventative care only, when necessary, for asymptomatic cases.