Our Activities

Since its inception in 1984 the activities of the Vivekananda Swasthya Seva Sangha (VSSS) have steadily grown and the number of village centres also multiplied. Following the ideal  Service to man as service to God, as preached by Swami Vivekananda, the Sangha renders selfless services in the clusters of villages in rural West Bengal through its seven rural service centres and several sub-centres.

Though the organization's activities are explicitly targeted towards primary health care programme; the organization is implementing an integrated approach encompassing education and other socio-economic development activities. 

A total number of 77 villages spreading over seven districts of West Bengal have been adopted by the Sangha covering 1.22 lakhs population comprising of Hindu, Muslim, and Tribal communities.

Health Care Service

As regards serving rural and tribal people, VSSS runs seven rural health centres and several satellite sub-centres. The activities are mainly based on curative, preventive and promotive aspects of primary health care programme of the Govt. of India and World Health Organization. On an average 51,330 persons were served annually during the last 5 years.

Promotive Programmes: Home visit; Health Education; Audio-Visual; Health Mela; Mother’s Meeting; Special Training; Early Childhood Education; Family Welfare, etc.
Preventive Programmes: Immunization; Mother & Child Health; Nutritional Supplementation Therapy(NST); Environmental Sanitation; Drinking Water Low Cost Sanitation; Smokeless Ovens; Waste Management, etc.
Curative Programmes: Patients Treatment &Medicine; Specialized Clinics; Eye Operation; X-Ray, etc.

Community Health Guides(CHG)
 Our CHG make home visits to educate and supervise the rural mass on best practices in physical and environmental health.

Mobile Health Care Unit

Our Medical Vans provides medical services on wheels to the remote rural areas. The Mobile Unit visits five rural centres by rotation every week and stays three days at a stretch at each Centre. It also renders the following routine services: Audio-visuals on health; Immunization; Conducting Home visits; Refresher course for Volunteers and CHG; Nutritional supplementation therapy; Naranarayan Seva, etc.

Socio-Economic Development Programmes Community Polytechnic, Fishery, Duckery; Cultural and Sports, Non-Formal Education; Library; Spiritual & Moral Education; WeeklyStudyCircle; Retreat etc.

Education
The Sangha serves on an average more than 300 rural women and children annually through its 3 Adult Education centres and 5 Early Childhood Education centres.

Earning Generation

About 120 rural youths and farmers are trained annually in various trades, - farming, tailoring and wool-knitting, computer operation, etc - through community polytechnics, and through agro-based seminars and workshops organized by the Sangha in its rural service centres.

Our Achievements 

Benefits of all the participative activities are extended to deserving people, regardless of their belonging to any particular community or religion. VSSS is nourished by the moral guidance of Monks of Ramakrishna Order and technical know-how from experts of Public Health following WHO guidelines. The voluntary participation and wholehearted cooperation of various groups in carrying out the activities has developed the feeling of  national solidarity in a long lasting way.

Uniqueness of VSSS

• Absolute Rural focus and remote  location
• Developing chosen location to self-sufficency through sustainable development plan
• Integrated Approach
• When project areas reach self-sufficiency, we moved on to new locations