India has made rapid strides in the health sector since independence. However, various eye-opening data from NFHS clearly indicate that access to healthcare still remains a challenge. While the health statistics of rural India continue to be poor, the health status and access to health for the poor in urban slum dwellers has surfaced to be equally deplorable and have less than 4% of government primary healthcare facilities.
Villagers suffer from adverse health conditions owing to mainly due to the lack of education and thus lack of awareness. Healthcare for underprivileged, which is a desperate need, thus remains unaddressed.
The need of the hour is thus a two-pronged approach – first to bring quality healthcare services to doorsteps of the needy and second to promote healthcare awareness and contemporary healthcare seeking behavior among the underprivileged In such a scenario a mobile healthcare services delivery system is the most practical mechanism. And in subscription to this view, the Foundation has initiated the mobile healthcare program. This is a unique mobile healthcare program that seeks to address problems of mobility, accessibility and availability of primary healthcare with a special focus on children and women, in urban slums and remote rural areas.
The Foundation through its Health Campaign is going to provide free healthcare awareness services to more than millions of citizen in the years to come.
