PROJECT BRIEF
Project Name:
Providing Healthcare for Villages in Rural India
Summary
This project provides a group of villages with access to healthcare through a primary care outpatient clinic in order to improve health outcomes and economic productivity.
Project Needs and Beneficiaries:
We are addressing the problem of inadequate healthcare access for the poor and marginalized people of villages in the South 24 Parganas district of rural West Bengal, India. Our solution offers them a geographically and socio-economically accessible healthcare clinic that is staffed by a fully licensed doctor that will also improve the local economy through improved worker productivity and reliability. We are planning to further develop partnerships with local employers to make this sustain-ably funded.
Activities
We provide healthcare to villagers in an area with no other healthcare access and where health outcomes are so poor that over 100 children out of every 1000 die before the age of five. We also seek to explore and implement sustainable funding models.
Funding Information
| Sl.No. | Description of the program fund | Unit cost per Month | No. of people benefited | For the period | Total cost in Rs. |
| 1. | Rs.700 -will provide one villager with primary healthcare access for one entire year | 700 | 100 | One year | 70,000 |
| 2. | Rs.1,500 -will train one community health volunteer to teach about better health and sanitation practices | 1,500 | 100 | One year | 1,50,000 |
| 3. | Rs. 2,500 -will provide 50 courses of generic antibiotic treatment | 2,500 | 100 | One year | 2,50,000 |
| 4. | Rs. 5,000 -will provide at least ten children with the full range of recommended childhood vaccinations | 5,000 | 100 | One year | 5,00,000 |
| Rs.6000- will provide at least ten children with the full range of recommended childhood vaccinations. | 6000 | 100 | One year | 6,00,000 |
Why this Project is Important Potential Long Term Impact:
The project will directly provide healthcare to 500-2500 people and will also demonstrate the economic value of having healthcare access in rural India. Through our research, we hope to influence new policy that can impact all of rural India.
Project Message
"We heard that a clinic will be built, but we did not believe it. Why would anyone care about us? But I see the construction, and I am in tears. We have forgotten that such people as you exist."
- Anonymous, Villager
- Anonymous, Villager
How We Work?
We promote local expertise by local experts.We influence public debate on development issues and participate in intercultural dialogue.
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