Summary and Conclusion
Through the health mela people is likely to be aware and get the health services and further to get health services for different kind of diseases in the district hospital, Community Health Centres (CHCs), Primary Health Centres (PHCs) and Sub-centres (SCs). The Health melas were organized for three days each in February, 2004 in Jamashedpur (Ghatsheela), Khagaria and Sitamarhi for the awareness raising and health check-ups and further follow up action for their health and family welfare.
It is important that the quality of services must be improved. Alternatively, there is a need to demonstrate that by increasing quality of services, acceptance of Family Planning including spacing methods also could be increased. Grass root workers are mainly responsible for providing the best quality of care and services to the people. About 7 of 10 respondents in Jamashedpur visited the health mela regularly for their check up while half of the respondents in Khagaria and Sitamarhi visited for such regularly.
Similarly the clinic provided the adequate privacy was more than 80 percent in Jamashedpur which was followed by Khagaria (62 percent) and Sitamarhi (43 percent).
The quality of services also depends on the appropriateness of the configuration of the services. An appropriate constellation of the services is one that is convenient and acceptable to clients, responds to their health concerns, and meets their health needs.
The appropriate constellation of services was also available at the health melas. A large majority of the respondents had the average travel time within 30 minutes for reaching the health melas. The sources of drinking water scored to 76.3 percent in the health mela of Sitamarhi to 90.5 percent in the health mela of Jamashedpur. People are keen to get the government health services through the health melas and now it is the time to organize the melas regularly for the awareness raising and success of the different health and family welfare activities of the programmes.