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Home  Health Health Improvement Board (HIB) Report 2003 |
Friday, 29 August 2008
- 26 Shabaan 1429
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Health Improvement Board (HIB) Report 2003 |
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- Vaccination Vaccinations against meningitis ACWY were provided at a very reasonable charge to hujjaj at the pre hajj seminar organised by European Hajj mission at Hujjat imambarah, This service was not only limited to European Hajj mission but it was open for hujjaj from any group. There were about 79 hujjaj vaccinated.
- Blood donation programme at Clifton road mosque, Birmingham. A blood donation session in the month of Muharram on 16 March 2003 was arranged at Birmingham by Dr Muslim Khoja. About 80 people were seen but only 46 pints of blood were collected. Though there were more people to be seen but because of early closing of session they were unable to be seen and others were rejected because they had travelled to malaria infested area in last few years.
- Medical Screening Medical screening has now been passed over to HIB from MAB. Along with height and weight scales, cholesterol & glucose tester, also an amount of £1786.74 from the screening fund has been transferred to HIB. First health Screening day was organised at Milton Keynes Jamaat, on Sunday 27 April 2003. There were about 83 people including children who participated in the screening. The screening programme was very successful. My thanks to the president and the MC of Milton Keynes for their full support.
- Health LecturesThe idea of these lectures is to raise awareness on health issues affecting our community at large . HIB has been allocated 5 minutes slot on FCP - (FRIDAY COMMUNITY PROGRAMME) at Hujjat Stanmore By giving sharp bullet points we can give out a lot of information in that five minutes . So Far Health Lectures Co-ordinator Alhajj Br. Kamruddin Khaki(Kakaji) has organised following lectures
1. CANCERS - by Mohammed Dewji - Cancer research - Pfizer
2. DENTAL HYGIENE AWARENESS -Muntazi Ali - BDS
3. OSTEOPOROSIS - Kakaji - Pharmacist
4. ARTHRITIS OF THE JOINTS & THE KNEE JOINT - Aliakbar Dharamsi - Physiotherapist
5. DIABETES - Dr,. Rahin - GP
6. ASTHMA - Lyakat Jaffer - Pharmacist
7. MMR VACCINATION - Current issues - Munir Datoo - GP
8. HAZARDS OF "SMOKING" - Kakaji - Pharmacist
9. HAYFEVER - Munir Datoo - GP
10. ALLERGIES - Kakaji - Pharmacist
11. Posture - Aliakbar Dharamsi - Physiotherapist - scheduled 22.08.03
OUR SINCERE THANKS TO LONDON JAMAAT - STANMORE & FCP (FRIDAY COMMUNITY PROGRAMME) AND STANMORE JAFFREYS FOR THE HEALTHY SPOT AFFORDED TO HIB EVERY FRIDAY. OUR SPECIAL THANKS TO BR. ALIAKBAR DHARAMSI FOR HIS FACILITATION AND ENTHUSIASM . ALSO OUR THANKS TO BR. ZAHID KHIMJI OF THE STANMORE JAFFRY LITEARARY SECTION. - Working with Muslim Youth Helpline MYH is an independent charity developed and run by youths to serve the youths. The establishment of this helpline was undertaken by youths from our community. So far a number of youths in our community with mental health and drug problems, social and other problems have sought their help and support. At HIB we were aware that we needed to deal with the special health issues affecting the youths of our community. After due consideration it was decided that because of the types of problems affecting the youths rather than HIB dealing with it directly, we work with and support an independent organisation. Muslim Youth Helpline has filled this vacuum for us.
- Drug Seminar A drug awareness seminar was organised in coordination with the Welfare sub committee of CoEJ, at Hujjat Imambarah, Stanmore on June 15th. 2003, We have recorded this seminar on video/audio and DVD to add in to our resources. Our thanks to Br. Mahmood Rehemtulla for providing live coverage of this programme on Hujjat web site www.hujjat.org/coejseminar.html. Following the above seminar it was decided that the follow up of this seminar should be carried out by HIB as SDP(Substance Dependency Programme) and its objectives are:
To develop substance misuse prevention strategy.
To raise awareness within our community of this problem.
To support those affected by this problem.
To build capacity in the community to deal with this problem.
To build partnerships within the community and with external agencies
Action plan:
Identify ways of finding drug pushers and strategies to deal with them.
Videos on drug awareness to be used in our madresahs to discuss issues with children
Work with drug agencies on prevention
Create network of support workers
Further lectures and seminars
Create database of support agencies and help lines in various areas where our Jamaats are located.
- Elderly Project Myself and Br Iqbal Manji visited senior citizen groups at Hujjat and Birmingham Jamaats. Iqbal Manji spoke about Social Services and I spoke on Arthritis. We had a talk on Falls in elderly in Peterborough and similar talk on falls was given by Dr Akbar Mohammedali at Hujjat Jamaat , Stanmore.
- Leaflet stands HIB health promotion leaflet Co-ordinator Br. Lyakat Jaffer has supplied leaflet holders (2xA5 and 2xA4 holders for both ladies and gents sides) to Peterborough, Birmingham, Wessex Jamaats and Milton Keynes where they have already been installed. Other Jamaats, yet to be supplied include Hayderi, Stanmore, Essex and Leeds. These leaflets, which the HIB is providing has been tested on UK population and has important contact numbers for UK agency as well.
- Dietician project The meeting was arranged between our dietician sis. Fatema Mamdani and the Khawateen sub committee of CoEJ to promote a discussion on ways to realise and implement nutritional strategies, and how they may coincide with existing programmes.
- Women's health Issue We are working along with the Khawateen sub committee of CoEJ through their medical coordinator sis. Zinnat Mohammedali. regarding women's health issues. Recently we had organised a talk in Peterborough Jamaat on HRT.
- Awareness of mental health issues within our community Sis.Bina Kanani has recently joined us. She works in the area of psychological treatments, which include counselling, psychotherapy and hypnotherapy. In near future she will be working with us in providing mental health awareness by holding
1. Awareness days
2 Panel discussions with the audience
3. Sharing verbal and written information.
4. Setting up support groups within the community.
5. Set up a referral system to professional individuals within our community.
6. Seminars and lectures on a chosen topic.
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