Health Care “Jan Kalyan Seva” Program
“He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything” – Arabic proverb
India has made rapid strides in the health sector since independence. However, various eye-opening data from NFHS clearly indicate that access to healthcare 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.
Rural and Urban slum dwellers suffer from adverse health conditions owing to mainly two reasons –first the lack of education and thus lack of awareness; and second the unwillingness to lose a day’s wage to reach the nearest medical facility. 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.
Healthcare “Jan Kalyan Seva” Program
In such a scenario, a mobile healthcare services delivery system is the most practical mechanism. And in subscription to this view, Life Rising Foundation will be initiating the “Keep Smiling on Wheels” program. This will be a unique mobile hospital program that seeks to address problems of mobility, accessibility, and availability of primary healthcare with a special focus on children and women, in remote rural areas.
The Life Rising Foundation “Keep Smiling on Wheels” program is to provide free healthcare services.