KASTURI

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KASTURI SONS (THE HINDU) News paper
industry 130 year old organisation 4
publications Published at 12 places 3572
employees in total 1672 in Chennai Employee
Health Welfare Proactive management
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MEDICAL TEAM

• Guided by
• Dr.Nalini Krishnan M.D., - Director
• Supported by
• 5 Medical officers
• Clinical assistants
• Medical Social Worker Counsellor
• Physiotherapists
• Laboratory Staff

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• A comprehensive health care programme launched
  under the Arogyaraksha banner in 1997 for various
  curative and preventive medicine and health
  promotion programmes at worksite

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THE HINDU HEALTH WELFARE CENTRE

• Established in 1994
• Located at the heart of Chennai
• On site emergency services at the press
  corporate office also provided

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THE HINDU HEALTH WELFARE CENTRE

• Provides comprehensive health care services to
• Service employees their families
• Retired employees their spouse

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HEALTH CARE SERVICES PROVIDED

• Outpatient medical consultation treatment
• Specialists consultations - twice a week
• Diagnostic Lab Services ECG
• Imaging services - X-ray, Ultra Sonogram
  Echocardiogram
• Well equipped physiotherapy unit
• Counselling services for employees families
• Pharmacy services at no cost to patients

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COUNSELLING SERVICES

• Counselling of employees on work-place related
  inter-personal behavioural and emotional problems
• House visits for follow-up counselling

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COMMUNITY OUTREACH PROGRAMMES

• Awareness programmes on smoking and alcoholism
  conducted
• In schools and colleges
• Government and private corporations to mention a
  few
• Tamil Nadu steels - Arakonam
• Brakes India Padi, Chennai
• Reserve bank of India
• Hindustan motors
• Tamil Nadu police Nearly 80,000 police
  personnel have been covered through workshops
  conducted for alcohol deaddiction
• Hospitals and deaddiction centres
• Rural villages at Chingleput,Salem and Madurai
• And wherever help is required

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OTHER HEALTH CARE ACTIVITIES

• The Hindu in 1996 in collaboration with ILO an
  NGO, TTK Hospital participated in workshops and
  conducted programmes for prevention of alcohol
  and drug abuse at work place
• April 1998 Policy against Substance Abuse
  formulated jointly by the Union the Management
• Sponsoring for alcohol de-addiction treatment
• Also participated in the ARMADA (Association of
  Resource Managers Against Drug Abuse) SOLVE
  programmes on management of Stress,Tobacco and
  Alcohol Addiction, HIV infection and Violence

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HEARING CONSERVATION PROGRAMME

• Carried out in May 2001
• Helped to reduce noise emission keep it within
  safety limits
• Employees educated on the importance of using
  hearing protective equipment

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PREVENTIVE HEALTH CARE PROGRAMMES

• Annual on-site health screening master health
  check up done for employees of all branches
• Counselling on lifestyle modification done
• Well-Women Check-Up Including Gynec
  examination, Mammogram PAP Smear
• Screening of Food Handlers (canteen staff) for
  communicable diseases once in 6 months
• Typhoid and Hepatitis A vaccines administered

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ABOUT THE AA GROUP

• AA Support Groups for patients Al-Anon Family
  member support groups
• AA group meetings held at corporate office and at
  press (Maraimalainagar) once a week
• Senior members from other AA groups with long
  years of soberity invited to share their
  experience
• Al- Anon group meetings held at welfare centre
• 94 employees have come forward for treatment
• 70.7 of them remain sober still

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OTHER HEALTH CARE ACTIVITIES

• Health promotional activities at work place
  include
• Educative and awareness lectures on personal
  hygiene, road safety, addiction, cancer, obesity,
• hypertension, diabetes and other related
  diseases
• Dissemination of information through
  notices,posters,flyers
• Messages on scrollers at canteen
• Poster exhibition
• Screening camps
• In-house newsletter called Welfare Watch
• Health Promotion Messages in pay packet
• Participation in health fairs

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SMOKING CESSATION PROGRAMME

• Initiated on 1st January, 1999
• Declared No Smoking office on 1st January, 2000
• Conducted by Dr.Nalini Krishnan, Director,
  Dr.Mary Varman Chief Medical Officer Ms.Malini
  Roberts, Medical Social Worker of The Hindu H
  WC
• Technical Assistance by Ms. Thirumagal, Director
  of Counselling,T.T. Ranganathan Clinical Research
  Foundation, Chennai

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SMOKING CESSATION PROGRAMME How achieved ?

• Phased withdrawal of smoking zones at the work
  spot
• Smoking zones reduced from 3 places in 1999 to
  zero in 2000
• Counselling Workshops on Smoking Cessation
  Tips to quit smoking

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SMOKING CESSATION PROGRAMME How achieved ?

• Display of Anti Smoking posters at strategic
  places in the work place
• Distribution of pamphlets on health hazards of
  smoking financial loss due to smoking along
  with the monthly pay Cheque at QSP work shops
• Hand-outs distributed

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SMOKING CESSATION PROGRAMME Results

• Based on Questionnaire survey 6 months after
  QSP
• 4 decline in the total number of smokers after 6
  months of QSP
• Decrease in the numbers of cigarettes smoked
• Overwhelming response from the employees for no
  smoking in work place (94)
• Change of smoking location to outside office
  premises (67.6)

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SMOKING CESSATION PROGRAMME Results

• Stopping smoking during office hours (15)
• Smoking only after work and outside premises (7)
• Relapse of smoking was 26.4
• Reasons for relapse - peer pressure perception
  of stress tension

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Smoking Pays The tobacco company, The
Hospital ,The undertaker
A Cigar is a pipe with fire at one end and fool
at the other - anonymous
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Thank You