Health
Care carried to the communities the health system forgets.
India's transformation has been largely an urban phenomenon. The rural population continues to suffer economic deprivation, and the emerging health profile in rural areas is a cause for concern.
Three quarters of the infrastructure, a quarter of the people
Nearly 75% of healthcare infrastructure, personnel and resources sit in urban locations, where only 27% of the population lives. Every square below is one percent.
Step back for a minute and put yourself in their shoes
Poor people in rural areas must travel to cities for treatment. Often they delay it, or avoid it, for economic reasons.
- Typhoid, diarrhoea, measles and tuberculosis remain widespread
- Non-communicable disease — blindness, cancer, diabetes — is rising alongside
- Most adults working agricultural fields are chronically starved
- One out of ten babies do not make it past the first year of life
- Children leave school year on year because of an illness in the family
- The cost of a single hospitalisation places a family below the poverty line
A hospital that drives to the patient
A fully functional mobile medical facility carrying a complete medical team into rural areas — free at the point of care.
Registration
Counter, records and follow-up for every patient the van sees.
Consultation
General practice on board, equipped with essential medical tools.
Dental
An automated dental chair and an X-ray machine inside the vehicle.
Eye care
Auto-refractometer, vision drum and digital monitoring.
Laboratory
Sixty-eight diagnostic arrangements, from hematology to diabetic testing.
68 diagnostic arrangements
Hematology analyzer, centrifuge, laryngoscope, urine analyzer, BP and diabetic testing — a laboratory on wheels.
1.3 Lakh beneficiaries
Reached by the van alone, covering all areas in Bangalore with free, accessible healthcare and health education.
How it runs, end to end
From the registration counter to the ward that gets rebuilt behind it.
More than 30 initiatives in the healthcare field
Recognised by the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations, and in partnership with the Global Innovation Exchange.
- Govt hospital & PHC adoption
- Infrastructure development
- Upgradation of maternity hospitals
- Model hospitals & PHCs
- Health on Wheels
- Mobile dialysis unit
- Medical camps
- Eye clinics
- Oxygen plant installation
- Dialysis centres in govt hospitals
- Oncology depts in govt hospitals
- Mini health clinics in govt schools
“It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.”