Good Health and Well-being
This program we started in 2021 focuses on increasing the rate of babies’ drinking breast milk, which is a basic need for them to have the best start of their lives, ensuring their healthy physical and mental development, along with informing expectant mothers about the importance of the breast milk. The breast milk use rate in Yesilkent neighborhood, chosen as the pilot area for implementation, increased from 12% to 54%. Our final target is to reach the level of World Health Organization criteria for breast milk use in all of Avcilar.
In addition, within the scope of this program we support women of Avcilar by putting our vehicle fleet in their service to take them to Women’s Early Cancer Diagnose and Training Center for routine screenings.
As Avcilar Municipality, we know very well that there is no chronic disease in any branch of medicine like addiction that affects not only the person but also the whole society they are in it, biologically and psychologically surrounding them and causing damage.
With this awareness we have brought alive the “C4 System in the Fight Against Drug Addiction” being implemented in Avcilar as a first in Türkiye. We have opened the “Avcilar Municipality Addiction Treatment and Follow-up Center” as a result of collaboration with the C4 Recovery Solutions and Partners group. This program we run together with the Green Crescent Association, a leading CSO in this area, aims in its first stage at reducing the drug addiction rate in our city, which is globally accepted as a public health issue, integrating addicted people in the society again and completely eliminating it in the upcoming stages.
At the point we arrived at today, we know that it’s necessary to repair the damages caused by all losses in a person’s life to successfully treat the drug abuse disorder. Accordingly, the applied treatment is a holistic model that includes all aspects of a person’s life such as biological, psychological, social, domestic and business to recover from all loss, destruction or deficiencies. Our center uses a holistic approach that accepts the families of the applying addicted people.