Community Healthcare: India’s Orissa State, which is a shelter of 37 million people, is known for its poverty and backwardness. It has the country’s second-highest percentage of slum dwellers at 19% or 6.9 million people. It also has the country’s highest infant mortality rate, with about 86,000 infants dying each year. In the slums of Cuttack city, where healthcare is virtually nonexistent, impoverished slum dwellers face parasitic worms, skin diseases, malnutrition and tuberculosis TB. On the rare occasions when medical care is accessible, the poor must choose between health and food. The vast majorities in our society are suffering from various diseases and unable to be treated medically due to their economic condition.  The physical needs of various high-risk groups including women, children, migrant workers, laborers and rickshaw pullers and drug abusers in the slums have always remained unaccomplished. Having felt this great need in the slums of Cuttack city, we began conducting medical camps with qualified doctors and Para-medical staff.

Through this program slum dwellers get free consultation and medicines. Mobile Health Care Project funded by Geneva Global Inc. in 2005-2006 enabled us to provide medical care to 8,000 out of 1, 20,000 (approx) slum dwellers and 750 people educated in health and hygiene at health awareness camps, 60 women trained as Community Nutrition Programmer, 500 malnutrition children were given vitamins and food supplements, 200 children have been given Hepatitis-B vaccination subsequently gaining health and immunity. Since 2005, an Ambulance Van is being used for health camps in slum localities in Cuttack city.

One medical camp costs us about Rs. 5000/- (US $116.00), which includes cost of medicines, doctors’ honorarium, fuel etc. We solicit benevolent donations towards health care programs..