Health
Human Relief & Health Initiatives
CARE INDIA provides extensive health and human relief services across the country. These efforts aim to bridge healthcare disparities, respond to emergencies, and provide essential medical aid to underprivileged communities, both in rural and urban areas.
HUMAN RELIEF
We play a vital role in delivering healthcare and human relief, often working in areas that government services may not reach effectively.
- Service Delivery: We operate mobile health units, static clinics, and specialized medical camps that provide free or subsidized primary healthcare, diagnostics, medicines, and even surgeries.
- Emergency Response: During natural disasters (floods, cyclones, earthquakes) and health crises (pandemics), these organizations provide immediate medical assistance, relief materials, and rehabilitation support.
- Awareness and Education: We conduct health education campaigns on hygiene, nutrition, disease prevention, and sanitation to promote healthy behaviors within communities.
- Specific Focus Areas: Our Organization concentrate on specific health challenges, such as:
- Child Health: Like few focus on the health and nutrition of underprivileged children.
- Elderly Care: We provides essential healthcare services, including cataract surgeries and mobile healthcare units, for senior citizens.
Disease-Specific Aid: Groups such as can support (cancer care) and the eye care provide targeted support and treatment.
Key Organizations Involved in Health and Human Relief
- Care India: Focuses on providing access to medicine, operating mobile medical units in urban slums, and responding to disasters.
- Doctors For Everyone: Our humanitarian organization that works across 17 states in India, focusing on healthcare and nutrition for affected populations and in disaster-prone areas.
- Our Foundation: Delivers quality healthcare to vulnerable communities, particularly women and children, through initiatives like mobile healthcare units and telemedicine.
- Relief India: Works on a multifaceted approach involving healthcare, education, and community development, operating rehabilitation centres and health camps.
- Humanitarian Aid: Focuses on localizing humanitarian response, disaster risk reduction, and climate change resilience.
Health Initiatives
Care India health initiatives include for universal health coverage and a health insurance scheme for the poor, the National Health Mission with programs for maternal and child health, and to create a digital health ecosystem. Other key efforts involve for school nutrition, for affordable medicines, and various disease-specific programs like those for cancer and TB elimination.
- A national telemedicine service that allows for remote consultations.
- Used to deliver medical supplies and samples to remote areas to make healthcare faster and more accessible.
- A digital platform for vaccination services
Disease prevention and control
- Comprehensive Cancer Care Program: Includes massive screening campaigns for oral, breast, and cervical cancer and the establishment of cancer institutes.
- National TB Elimination Programme: Focuses on improving TB notification and treatment success rates.
- National Leprosy Eradication Programme: Includes the use of new drug regimens to eliminate lymphatic filariasis (LF).
- National Programme for Prevention and Control of Deafness: Focuses on preventing and controlling hearing loss.
- National Tobacco Control Programme: Our aim to control tobacco use.