Best Practice I:
Drinking water testing of college Staff and Students- Click Here
Goal:
- To check potability of drinking water.
- To provide services to Community
- To keep students and staff healthy and physically fit for the academic work.
- The Context:
- Our college is located in semi- urban area where majority of the students are coming from remote areas. Even some of the faculty members too commute from some other places. The water used for drinking purpose is from well, bore well and municipal supply. Few of them having conventional and modern water purifiers in their houses. As a good health keeps the sound mind, and drinking water proves to be one of the important factors responsible for either deteriorating the health. On the basis of the observation and study made by the Department of Microbiology, the college decided to work for solving or at least minimising the issue.
- Water used for drinking purpose is a source of many waterborne diseases.
- Prior checking is always helpful for prevention of these waterborne diseases
- This saves health, time and money of the individual.
- The Practice:
This practice includes.
- Collection of water samples from staff and students from their home and college campus in sterile containers provided by Microbiology department of the college
- Its testing in the Microbiology lab by standard methods prescribed by APHA ( American Public Health Association) and WHO for presence of pathogenic bacteria
- Filling up of form and distribution of its bacteriological quality certificate.
- Suggestions and recommendations are given for treatment of water if sample is found positive.
- Evidence of Success:
- This practice developed awareness about drinking water quality among staff and students.
After running the practice successfully the students as well as faculty from the college became aware of diseases caused by impure water
On the basis of the suggestions made to them they started taking precautions
This also helped in giving the hands on experience to many of the college students
It resulted out in minimizing the health issues among students as well as faculty
Students from the Department of Microbiology starting working as Water Ambassador for other stakeholders
There has been found great demand for the water analysis from the surrounding stakeholders
- Since no fee is charged, it saved time and money of the individuals which is not affordable when done form commercial agencies.
- Practical skills and knowledge of final year students of Microbiology were improved.
- Problems Encountered and Resources Required
- Additional media, chemicals and glass wares are needed when large of samples are collected, which stretch annual budget of the department.
Best Practice II
HEALTH SERVICES (Blood Group and Haemoglobin Check-up of Girl students)Click Here
Goal:
- To check health problems of girl students related to blood
- To provide services to Community
- To keep students healthy and physically fit for day to day’s work.
- The Context:
The college is proud to have high number of girl students admitted to various UG/PG programmes run by it. Most of these girl students have low socio-economic status, rural and illiterate family background. These girls are in the adolescence phase of life cycle which needs higher iron intake due to excessive bleeding during menstrual cycle. This is a major cause for anaemia amongst them. Low dietary intake of iron, blood loss due to Hookworm infestation and Malaria are the other causes of iron deficiency. This can adversely influence their physical wellbeing and academic performance. Considering the above, the management of our college has adopted the policy of compulsory haemoglobin and blood group check-up. Our college is committed to fulfil its social responsibility by conducting such kind of activity.
- The Practice:
This practice includes haemoglobin & blood group check-up of girl students followed by remedial measures. Estimation of haemoglobin and blood group of all girls’ of First year UG/PG admitted in the college is done every year. The detail history of each student regarding menstrual problems & other health problems is taken. Proper medicines, tonics and De-worming tablets are given to all students. The college alumni, teaching and non-teaching staff of the college, doctors from Nasik city, philanthropic individuals and organizations from and around Nasik city, generously donate iron and nutritional supplement tablets and tonics for the students. Follow-up is taken of those girls whose haemoglobin level was found to be below normal range. For improvement, problems are solved by counselling. Healthy eating habits are imbibed in students. Awareness against ill effects of junk food is also created.
3.Evidence of Success:
This practice has succeeded in developing awareness about anaemia and its related illnesses. It has improved haemoglobin percentage in the anaemic girl students. The girl students have been de-wormed. The blood group of every girl student has been identified. It has helped to identify Rh–ve girls. Such girls are high risk future mothers so parent counselling is done to avoid complications during pregnancy and delivery. Importance of Anti-D injection is explained to them. Sanitary napkin vending machine has been installed to provide low cost & safe sanitary napkins to the girl students. The girl students have expressed their satisfaction about the practice. Overall effect of this practice is all round development, and excellent academic performance of girl students.
- Problems Encountered and Resources Required:
Most of the girl students studying in the college have poor, rural and uneducated family background. Hence, initially, efforts have to be taken to create awareness about anaemia, Rh–ve factor of blood group. The college management has made haemoglobin check-up, blood group determination in free of cost. The practice requires the resources like sterile syringes with needles, surgical spirit, medicinal cotton, dietary iron and nutritional supplement tablets and tonics, weighing machine, height chart, distilled water and trained medical personnel.