Healthcare For All

We aim to

Improve primary healthcare, with the hope that it will reduce the need for secondary and tertiary services.

Reduce women's dependence on men, in terms of money and transport, to seek healthcare.

Provide quality healthcare services to last mile women.

Encourage women to save for their health, through our health savings tool.

Provide access to affordable healthcare.

We aim to

Improve primary healthcare, with the hope that it will reduce the need for secondary and tertiary services.
Provide quality healthcare services to last mile women.
Encourage women to save for their health, through our health savings tool.
Reduce women's dependence on men, in terms of money and transport, to seek healthcare.
Provide access to affordable healthcare.

Diagnostic Center

We have constructed a state-of-the-art Diagnostic Center which provides radiology and pathology services. This is one-of-a-kind within a 70km radius that charges government rates. This center serves 400,000 people living in Mann and Khatav Tehsil's.

Public Private Partnership Hospital

The Gondawale Khurd Rural Hospital in Satara is led by Mann Deshi, supported by our corporate partners HSBC India and Cipla Foundation, in collaboration with the district administration of Satara. This partnership was begun to help stifle the devastation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic whilst also undertaking research to assess the needs of the communities and cater accordingly to those needs.

Health Camps

We have established regular health camps for women and their communities. These started in 2019, during the Covid-19 pandemic, when we realized that non communicable diseases are happening all around us and impacting numerous people. While rates of diabetes and hypertension are high, there are very few people in rural India who know they have these conditions. At these health camps we carry out health screenings for diabetes and hypertension. For children we also screen for vision. These health camps are aimed at preventative healthcare practices.

Community Healthcare Workers

We are working to empower women to provide doorstep healthcare services, in partnership with Dvara Healthcare Finance. In this program we recruit women and train them to carry out doorstep healthcare services. In partnership with Georgetown University's MedStar Hospital and Dvara Health Finance we are working to develop a curriculum to train community healthcare workers that will be shared with the government in the future.

NEEM Health Project

A study of 179 households in rural Satara conducted by Mann Deshi and analyzed by Dvara Health Finance shows households spend a quarter of their monthly income on healthcare. In response to these findings we have started a unique pilot program in partnership with Dvara, providing comprehensive doorstep screening, referrals, tailored medicine and nutrition plans, and regular health savings.

Started in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, this program has been vital to the wellbeing of our community through Covid and beyond.

IMPACT

Over 8,000 recovered in the public private partnership hospital.

Over 50,000 women screened at health camps.

Over 200 crores saved in healthcare costs.

To learn more about how our programmes make a difference read our Stories of Change.