Anganwadi Kendra Visit—3rd BHMS (2025-26)

The Department of Community Medicine of C. N. Kothari Homoeopathic medical college and research Center, Vyara, organized a field visit to the Tadkuva Anganwadi Kendra for students of 3rd BHMS CBDC to provide students with firsthand insight into maternal and child health care, nutritional surveillance, and early childhood interventions in rural and semi-urban communities; In alignment with the directives of the National Commission for Homoeopathy (NCH) for the Competency-Based Dynamic Curriculum (CBDC).

The Anganwadi system forms the backbone of the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) program in India.

Objectives of the Visit

The core educational competencies aimed at during this visit included:

• Understanding the infrastructure, staffing pattern, and target beneficiaries of an Anganwadi Kendra.

• Observing the delivery of the 6 core services under the ICDS scheme.

• Learning about nutritional assessment tools (growth charts, MUAC tapes) used for screening Malnutrition.

• Understanding the role of the Anganwadi Worker (AWW) and Anganwadi Helper (AWH) in community mobilization and coordination with Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA) and Auxiliary Nurse Midwives (ANM).

This whole program was conducted by community Medicine department.