KASTURI & SONS (THE HINDU) News paper industry 130 year old organisation 4 publications

1. KASTURI & SONS (THE HINDU) • News paper industry • 130 year old organisation • 4 publications • Published at 12 places • 3572 employees in total ; 1672 in Chennai • Employee Health & Welfare Proactive management

2. MEDICAL TEAM • Guided by • Dr.Nalini Krishnan M.D., - Director • Supported by • 5 Medical officers • Clinical assistants • Medical Social Worker & Counsellor • Physiotherapists • Laboratory Staff

3. A comprehensive health care programme launched under the Arogyaraksha banner in 1997 for various curative and preventive medicine and health promotion programmes at worksite

4. THE HINDU HEALTH & WELFARE CENTRE • Established in 1994 • Located at the heart of Chennai • On site emergency services at the press & corporate office also provided

5. THE HINDU HEALTH & WELFARE CENTRE • Provides comprehensive health care services to • Service employees & their families • Retired employees & their spouse

6. HEALTH CARE SERVICES PROVIDED • Outpatient medical consultation & treatment • Specialists’ consultations - twice a week • Diagnostic Lab Services & ECG • Imaging services - X-ray, Ultra Sonogram & Echocardiogram • Well equipped physiotherapy unit • Counselling services for employees & families • Pharmacy services – at no cost to patients

7. COUNSELLING SERVICES • Counselling of employees on work-place related inter-personal behavioural and emotional problems • House visits for follow-up counselling

8. COMMUNITY OUTREACH PROGRAMMES • Awareness programmes on smoking and alcoholism conducted • In schools and colleges • Government and private corporations to mention a few • Tamil Nadu steels - Arakonam • Brakes India – Padi, Chennai • Reserve bank of India • Hindustan motors • Tamil Nadu police – Nearly 80,000 police personnel have been covered through workshops conducted for alcohol deaddiction • Hospitals and deaddiction centres • Rural villages at Chingleput,Salem and Madurai • And wherever help is required

9. OTHER HEALTH CARE ACTIVITIES • The Hindu in 1996 in collaboration with ILO & an NGO, TTK Hospital participated in workshops and conducted programmes for prevention of alcohol and drug abuse at work place • April 1998 : Policy against Substance Abuse formulated jointly by the Union & the Management • Sponsoring for alcohol de-addiction treatment • Also participated in the ARMADA (Association of Resource Managers Against Drug Abuse) & SOLVE programmes on management of Stress,Tobacco and Alcohol Addiction, HIV infection and Violence

10. HEARING CONSERVATION PROGRAMME • Carried out in May 2001 • Helped to reduce noise emission & keep it within safety limits • Employees educated on the importance of using hearing protective equipment

11. PREVENTIVE HEALTH CARE PROGRAMMES • Annual on-site health screening & master health check up done for employees of all branches • Counselling on lifestyle modification done • Well-Women Check-Up – Including Gynec examination, Mammogram & PAP Smear • Screening of Food Handlers (canteen staff) for communicable diseases once in 6 months • Typhoid and Hepatitis A vaccines administered

12. ABOUT THE AA GROUP • AA Support Groups for patients & Al-Anon Family member support groups • AA group meetings held at corporate office and at press (Maraimalainagar) once a week • Senior members from other AA groups with long years of soberity invited to share their experience • Al- Anon group meetings held at welfare centre • 94 employees have come forward for treatment • 70.7% of them remain sober still

13. OTHER HEALTH CARE ACTIVITIES • Health promotional activities at work place include • Educative and awareness lectures on personal hygiene, road safety, addiction, cancer, obesity, • hypertension, diabetes and other related diseases • Dissemination of information through notices,posters,flyers • Messages on scrollers at canteen • Poster exhibition • Screening camps • In-house newsletter called Welfare Watch • Health Promotion Messages in pay packet • Participation in health fairs

14. SMOKING CESSATION PROGRAMME • Initiated on 1st January, 1999 • Declared ‘No Smoking’ office on 1st January, 2000 • Conducted by Dr.Nalini Krishnan, Director, Dr.Mary Varman Chief Medical Officer & Ms.Malini Roberts, Medical Social Worker of The Hindu H & WC • Technical Assistance by Ms. Thirumagal, Director of Counselling,T.T. Ranganathan Clinical Research Foundation, Chennai

15. SMOKING CESSATION PROGRAMME – How achieved ? • Phased withdrawal of smoking zones at the work spot • Smoking zones reduced from 3 places in 1999 to ‘zero’ in 2000 • Counselling & Workshops on Smoking Cessation & Tips to quit smoking

16. SMOKING CESSATION PROGRAMME – How achieved ? • Display of Anti –Smoking posters at strategic places in the work place • Distribution of pamphlets on health hazards of smoking & financial loss due to smoking along with the monthly pay Cheque & at ‘QSP’ work shops • Hand-outs distributed

17. SMOKING CESSATION PROGRAMME – Results • Based on Questionnaire survey 6 months after ‘QSP’ • 4% decline in the total number of smokers after 6 months of ‘QSP’ • Decrease in the numbers of cigarettes smoked • Overwhelming response from the employees for ‘no smoking’ in work place (94%) • Change of smoking location to outside office premises (67.6%)

18. SMOKING CESSATION PROGRAMME – Results • Stopping smoking during office hours (15%) • Smoking only after work and outside premises (7%) • Relapse of smoking was 26.4% • Reasons for relapse - peer pressure & perception of stress & ‘tension’

19. ‘Smoking Pays … … The tobacco company, The Hospital ,The undertaker’ ‘A Cigar is a pipe with fire at one end and fool at the other’ -anonymous

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