Centers

Community Medicine provides Promotive, Preventive, Curative, and Rehabilitative healthcare for an entire community with an emphasis on preventive measures at various levels. Community medicine takes an active role in maintaining the well-being of a particular community, considering their needs.

The Rural Health Training Centre is located in Vadamadurai, 13 km from VMCH, with transport facilities, functions round the clock, with residential and mess facilities.

Total population : 9452 and Total number of houses: 1830.

The facility is staffed with a full-time medical officer along with specific clinical services like gynaecology and pediatrics. The activities of the RHTC are monitored by an Assistant Professor from the Community Medicine department and it's under the administrative control of the Dean of VELS medical college and hospital.

Facilities provided at RHTC are as follows :

  • Provides free consultation, medicines, and lab services for the rural and tribal population.
  • Health Advocacy.
  • Observance of Public health days recommended by the Government of India & WHO (e.g., World Health Day, Village Health Nutrition Days, etc.).
  • Training of students and interns (MBBS & Nursing) in community-oriented primary healthcare and rural-based health education for the rural community attached to it
  • It conducts field studies/Research aspects of Health and Family Welfare, RCH, Nutrition, Health education, and Communicable and Non-Communicable diseases and also provides field services for research works in public health.
  • Maternal Health Check-up.
  • Under 5 health check-up.
  • Specialty clinics on particular days.
  • Family Planning, RTI/STDs.
  • Sanitation.
  • Hygiene and proper nutritional practices/cooking.
  • Health Education on the importance of nutrition.
  • Anthropometric measurements of infants and children.
  • Immunization program.
  • Special emphasis on nutritional demonstration, diseases due to malnutrition, and its precautions.

Community Medicine provides Promotive, Preventive, Curative, and Rehabilitative healthcare for an entire community with an emphasis on preventative measures at various levels. Community medicine takes an active role in maintaining the well-being of a particular community, considering their needs.

Urban health training centre is located in Arani, 12 km from VMCH, with transport facilities, a non-residential day care unit.

Total population : 15400 and Total number of houses: 3332.

The facility is staffed with a medical officer along with specific clinical services like gynaecology and pediatrics. The activities of the UHTC are monitored by an Assistant Professor from the Community Medicine department and it’s under the administrative control of the Dean of VELS medical college and hospital.

Facilities provided at UHTC are as follows :

  • Provides free consultation, medicines, and lab services for the urban population.
  • Observance of Public health days recommended by the Government of India & WHO (e.g., World Health Day, Village Health Nutrition Days, etc.).
  • Training of students and interns (MBBS & Nursing) in community-oriented primary healthcare and urban-based health education for the urban community attached to it.
  • It conducts field studies/Research aspects of Health and Family Welfare, RCH, Nutrition, Health education, and Communicable and Non-Communicable diseases and also provides field services for research works in public health.
  • Maternal Health Check-up.
  • Under 5 health check-up.
  • Specialty clinics on particular days.
  • Family Planning, RTI/STDs.
  • Sanitation.
  • Hygiene and proper nutritional practices/cooking.
  • Health Education on the importance of nutrition.
  • Anthropometric measurements of infants and children.
  • Immunization program.
  • Special emphasis on nutritional demonstration, diseases due to malnutrition and its precautions.