Health Care

MISSION OBJECTIVE

To reach basic healthcare to 1 million disadvantaged rural and urban people, particularly the elderly in under-served communities by 2020. Currently, we are reaching out through 1383 community locations and the plan is to reach out to the community from 2000 site locations by 2020.

OPERATIONS

HelpAge Mobile Health services operate on a three pronged concept, at the core of which is the Mobi-Health Unit providing primary health care through direct intervention, followed by sustainable health care measures, such as setting up of Gram Chikitsa Centres and Accredited Clinics.

ODirect Intervention: The Mobi-Health Unit

The Mobi-Health service provides affordable and quality primary health care services at the doorsteps of the needy elderly. The Mobi-Health Unit (MHU) consists of a 4 wheeler with customized fabrication done to carry medicines, consumables & equipment. These units visit designated locations on a regular basis (weekly or fortnightly) as per a fixed schedule. The coverage of each MHU is 10 locations per week, on a two-shift (morning & afternoon) basis.

Health Care Programmes

To implement Reproductive & Child Health (RCH) Projects.
Providing Sex Education to Adolescents.
To implement HIV / STD / AIDS / Cancer prevention programmes.
To conduct DIET Training Programmes.
To conduct various Research Studies, Survey in the field of Health.
To setup Drug Abuse Prevention Centers.
To provide various Health related trainings.
To organize Health Camps / Health Mela in both Urban & Rural areas.
To plant more & more Medical Plants.
To run first aid and primary Health Centers.
To implement the projects in the field of Indian System of Medicines & Homeopathy.
To run mobile dispensaries.
To provide free medicine aid to handicapped, aged persons, widows, the down trodden and Weaker sections of the society.
To carry out immunization medical checkup, blood donation camps and nutrition for harmonious development of rural children and women.
To provide awareness regarding infant mortality.
To start National Health Programmes for leprosy, blindness, tuberculosis, cancer and the Course of Aids.
To fight against drug abuse by setting up de addiction centres.
To setup hospitals, dispensaries and schools in rural and urban areas where the existing medical case and education facilities are inadequate.
To initiate nutrition programme for the health of women and children.
To establish Rural Health Centre.
To promote Indian System of Medicine such as Ayurveda, Siddha, Unani, Homoeopathy, Yoga & Naturopathy and to Establish Herbal Garderns.
To run the Mother NGO Programmes in the field of Health.