Health
Health Services
Global Vision For Inclusive Progress (GVFIP) has an integrated health service department offering community, individual, nutrition and telemedicine healthcare facilities. The main idea is to ensure that quality healthcare services are provided to the masses. (Global Vision For Inclusive Progress) GVFIPis improving health indicators through intervening in health facilities and community health worker intervention (Marvi/Noor Workers)
Community Health Services
Global Vision For Inclusive Progress
(GVFIP) has the honor to introduce a cadre of community-based outreach health workers in areas where there is no Lady Health Worker (LHW) by a pilot project held in a remote district of Sindh during 1999-2003.
These health workers are local literate/low literate/illiterate women selected as per defined selection criteria, to provide basic health services in their defined target area. The selected female is trained to serve her community as community based Marvi/Misali worker to provide services in under-served non-LHW areas.
The services are provided to the designated population by following the established activities and project indicators, which are part of the Marvi worker’s job description. For the technical/skill-based services, each Marvi is given supportive supervision by a Lady Health Visitor (LHV). Last year 3,965 Marvi /Noor Worker served the same number of villages/urban settlements in 13 districts of the country. The Marvi worker organizes the neighborhood and informs/educates the target group using conventional information packages for behavior modification. Various tactics are also employed to modify behavior. In Pakistan, Global Vision For Inclusive Progress
(GVFIP) is the leading NGO offering free family planning and healthcare services. (GVFIP) also offers high quality affordable telemedicine services and top-notch and affordable online medical services.
Sustainablity of Health Service
Global Vision For Inclusive Progress (GVFIP) has addressed sustainability in community health services through a small grant to establish an enterprise (grocery shop) by Marvi for their economic empowerment and sustainability by developing businesses within their villages. Marvi sells basic consumables for hygiene and health at their Marvi Markaz, making it simple for customers to get those things. Marvi manages the business along with basic health services. Currently, GVFIP has Marvi workers who are working for social mobilization, income generation opportunities and gender empowerment. With the use of this model, Marvi makes an average of PKR 2-4 thousand every month to support her family.
GVFIP Family Planning (FP) services are available through outreach Community Health Workers and Health Facilities
Through our Family Planning services, we have been able to help 0.83 million married couples and brought about a 53 percent contraceptive prevalence rate. This intervention has made it possible to avert 22,099 unsafe abortions and prevent 43 maternal mortalities. In addition, 62,985 unwanted pregnancies and 40,746 Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYS) were also averted.