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Deepalaya - Community Health Program
Deepalaya - Community Health Program
Not-for-profit
Year launched: 2005Existing or expanding (post-pilot)
Approach
Target geography
Target Population
Target income level
- Bottom 20%
- Lower-middle income (20-40%)
- Middle-income (40-60%)
Health focus
- Primary care
- Secondary/tertiary care
CHMI PLUS Status
Profile Completeness Rating
bronze
Monitoring & Evaluation Reporting
Summary
Deepalaya’s Community Health Program provides access to health care, encourages health seeking behavior among the people & strengthens existing health delivery mechanisms in target villages in South Delhi through its rural health center and mobile clinics.Program goals
AIM: -to establish effective and sustainable mechanisms in the realm of promotive, preventive and rehabilitative health -to improve the demand and access to qualitative health services for weaker sections to become healthy communities
Key program components
Deepalaya’s healthcare facilities include two rural health centers and mobile clinics (Chameli Dewal Memorial Rural Health and Mobile Clinic in Gusbethi and A.P. Dewan Memorial Clinic in Kalkaji). The health centers provide basic curative, diagnostic, cataract and obstetric services. The clinics are linked to existing public facilities to increase the basket of services provided. The rural health clinics provide basic health services along with a variety of diagnostic tests such as: Hemoglobin, Blood Group Analysis, Urine Pregnancy Test, Urine, Albumin sugar, along with many others. More recently, separate Gynecology and Obstetric wings as well as a cataract surgery theater have been added to these clinics. The mobile units provide aforementioned curative services, follow-ups on patients, referrals, antenatal care, and immunization and school health programs. In addition, they work with community health workers to reach various areas in South Delhi. Program sees an average of 72 patients per day (2009 data)
Scale
Number of facilities/outlets involved:
2facilities/outlets
Financials
Primary source of funding:
Donor
Parent Organizations
No, the program is its own organization.
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