Malnutrition & tribal health: to ameliorate for solicitous brotherhood

Author: 
Dr. Suparna Sanyal Mukherjee

India maybe a country of magnanimous solidarity for its rich cultural heritage. Tribal people are the strength of such refinement. The autochthonous people of the planet with about 635 tribal groups and subgroups including 75 primitive tribes’ repose in India. The state of West Bengal occupies a singular position in the tribal map of India having 16 scheduled tribes including 3 primitive tribes. Health care is one amongst the foremost important of all human endeavors to improve the standard of life especially of the tribal people. It implies the provision of conditions for normal, physical and mental development and functioning of human being individually also as in a group to ameliorate and solicitude the brotherhood. United Nation acknowledged that community development is a “process where the community members close to require collective action and generate solutions to common problems”. To empower individuals and groups of people with the skills they need to effect change within their communities, these skills are often created through the formation of social groups working for a common agenda, of which Malnutrition is an inseparable phenomenon. The selected tribal communities are absolutely forest dwellers. Their health system and medical knowledge over ages known as ‘Traditional Health Care System’ depend both on the herbal and the psychosomatic lines of treatment. While plants, flowers, seeds, animals and other naturally available substances formed the major basis of treatment, this practice always had a touch of mysticism, supernatural and magic, often resulting in specific magico-religious rites. Faith healing has always been a part of the traditional treatment in the Tribal Health Care System, which can be equated with rapport or confidence building in the modern treatment procedure. The present study emphasized to conglutinate the tribe duo, in enhancement of proper health care procedure to fight against Malnutrition especially Protein-Calorie Malnutrition to ameliorate for solicitous of tribal brotherhood for better orientation and healthy life and livelihood status through community fund generation process.

Paper No: 
3306