Anushkaa Foundation for Eliminating Clubfoot

We prioritize comprehensive counseling support for primary caregivers, understanding its crucial role in our program. Our counseling services are delivered through various channels, ensuring accessibility and convenience:

- At the Clinic/ Telephonic and Home Visits

Parent and guardian counseling is essential to our approach. We provide detailed information about the condition, dispel myths and stigma, and emphasize the importance of treatment compliance. This holistic support system ensures that caregivers are well-informed and empowered throughout the treatment process.

The TTT is a two-day residential training program where select orthopedic doctors from our Clubfoot Clinics come together to receive Advanced Training in the Ponseti Method of treating Clubfoot. Developing trainers who can conduct medical training across India is a crucial component of our Clubfoot program. The objectives of the ‘Train the Trainer’ program are:

- Enhance Teaching Skills: Equip trainers with the understanding and skills necessary for effective teaching and training of adult learners.

- Mentorship Development: Develop trainers' abilities to mentor Clubfoot practitioners, ensuring ongoing support and guidance.

- Program Delivery: Prepare participants to organize and deliver the Basic Medical Training program, ensuring a consistent and high-quality educational experience.

- Current we have 32 Master Trainers Developed

The organization establishes clubfoot clinics in Government-run and charitable hospitals that operate once every week with an aim to help with early detection, timely intervention and helping parents with children having clubfoot to have access to relevant medical facilities, diagnosis and treatment.

- 17,000+ Children enrolled since inception
- 2,40,362+ patient visits carried out
- 10,336+ visits to CHCs (Community Health Centre)
- 9,015+ visits to PHCs (Public Health Centre)

The curriculum for the Basic Medical Training program focuses both on theory
and practical aspects and provides an in-depth explanation about the Ponseti
treatment. The curriculum provides deep exposure to Casting, Tenotomy and
Bracing Techniques which are demonstrated on models as well as children during the training. This approach is what makes the training comprehensive.
The program includes a pre-course assessment and a post-course assessment
which helps us in providing varying levels of support to doctors and mentor them.

- 99 Medical trainings conducted
- 338+ Doctors Trained

As a part of ensuring good quality treatment for the children, we also provide
medical supplies to the clinics. This includes the casting material required during the correction phase of the Ponseti Method and bars and shoes – the two components that make up the foot abduction brace required during the maintenance phase. These are provided free of cost to the patient. As the child
grows, we also upgrade the size of shoes and bars.

The medical equipment support and the follow-up system has a tremendous positive impact on reducing the dropout rate of the patients. Hence, provision of bars, shoes and materials becomes a very crucial element of the program model.

We implement our early identification and referral strategy in partnership with
the government. Our outreach activities are targeted towards leveraging primary
health care centers (PHCs) and community health centers (CHCs), district
hospitals, Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Karyakram (RBSK), Accredited Social Health
Activist (ASHA) workers, Anganwadi workers, Auxiliary Nurse Midwives (ANM) and
other government stakeholders.

- 1,67,000+ ASHAs Sensitized
- 7,000+ RBSK Sensitized