12 NGOs Which Have Revolutionized Healthcare In India

NGO for Healthcare in India

India has a very wide variety of citizens. A major chunk in India belongs to a social status that might not necessarily allow for education or skills to earn a livelihood. 

Hence, India has scope for many NGOs that help these people earn a better livelihood or even facilitate a better lifestyle. NGOs help bridge the gap between the underprivileged and the facilities available in the country. 

Lack of access to excellent services for the poor and marginalised people is one of India’s many difficulties in the healthcare industry. This is partly owing to the country’s poor investment in public healthcare, which accounts for about 1% of GDP and is among the lowest in the world.

During the Covid-19 epidemic, the healthcare infrastructure was put under a great deal of stress, exposing flaws. However, some non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are discovering the core causes of healthcare problems and developing novel remedies. They operate in a variety of fields, including a child and reproductive health, nutrition, illness early detection, and communicable disease treatment.

12 Healthcare NGOs in India

Let’s take a look at 12 NGOs for Healthcare in India

1. Swasth Foundation

Swasth was founded in 2009 with the purpose of creating a sustainable and accountable health ecosystem with the vision of ‘Health and Joy for All.’ The organization’s network of primary healthcare centres offers low-cost treatments that cut out-of-pocket costs for individuals in need by more than half. The centres are dedicated to improving people’s physical, social, mental, and emotional well-being. Courses, classes, workshops, and one-on-one contacts are used to accomplish this. The programmes are built on the integration of diverse well-being modalities such as yoga, ayurveda, nutrition, counselling, coaching, and so on.

2. Foundation for mother and child health

This is a non-profit organisation that provides healthcare and nourishment to mothers and children in Mumbai’s most needy neighbourhoods. In underserved communities, their programmes promote preventative health, balanced nutrition, and child development practises. They’ve taken a comprehensive approach to this end, embracing, educating, and empowering women and children in their social context.

The FMCH Training Center in Mumbai was established with the goal of building a cadre of experts throughout Maharashtra and, eventually, the country. FMCH works directly with families and large groups to promote excellent health, cleanliness, and nutrition habits through the Urban Nutrition Initiative and Project Poshan, which are nutrition-specific programmes. Every year, their programmes have an impact on over 930 pregnant and nursing women.

3. Arogjya Seva

Aarogya Seva is an international humanitarian volunteer organisation that uses micro-volunteering to provide high-quality healthcare to people from all walks of life. The NGO provides a platform for all sectors of the healthcare business to assist patients in underserved regions, including pharmaceutical corporations, hospitals, private practitioners, and healthcare service providers of all specialisations. With its army of 25,000 volunteers, Aarogya Seva has already touched over 100,000 people and intends to reach one million in the next two years.

4. SEARCH (Society for Education, Action and Research in Community Health)

This 34-year-old works in the vulnerable, semi-tribal and deprived district of Gadchiroli in the easternmost corner of Maharashtra. Its vision is to achieve ‘Aarogya Swaraj’ (healthy life) empowering individuals and groups to take charge of their own health and help them achieve freedom from disease and dependence.

5. Movement for Alternatives and Youth Awareness (MAYA)

MAYA has built a healthcare delivery system for preventive and promotive health through its health programme. Health professionals are educated and equipped with technology to test, monitor, and advise vulnerable populations on health issues such as blood pressure, blood sugar, and anaemia at little cost, right at their homes. There are now around 100 health staff working in three areas, serving a population of over 3,000 people.

6. Charutar Arogya Mandal

What began as a 136-bed general hospital has grown to include a Medical Council of India-accredited medical college, a 720-bed hospital, a post-graduate institute, a school of nursing, a college of physiotherapy, an institute of medical technology, and heart care and cancer centre.

7. Swasthya Swaraj

This foundation is trying to make excellent health a reality for the poorest and neglected people by focusing on healthcare and education. It has established model community health programmes in tribal regions such as the Thuamul Rampur Block in Odisha’s Kalahandi district, where families are impoverished and children are malnourished. The tribals who live here are all too familiar with poverty, illness, and death — many of which go unreported and are due to avoidable causes.

8. Can kids, kids can

CanKids KidsCan is the only national NGO working across the complete spectrum of paediatric cancer care in India, having been founded in 2004 under the Indian Cancer Society. CanKids’ hallmark programme, YANA (You Are Not Alone), provides comprehensive support to a child with cancer from the moment of diagnosis through treatment and beyond. CanKids collaborates with 113 cancer centres across India, in 62 cities and 27 states.

9. Swastha Foundation

Swasth was founded in 2009 with the purpose of creating a sustainable and accountable health ecosystem with the vision of ‘Health and Joy for All.’ The organization’s network of primary healthcare centres offers low-cost treatments that cut out-of-pocket costs for individuals in need by more than half.

10. Rural healthcare foundation

Since 2009, the Rural Health Care Foundation (RHCF) has worked in the field of healthcare, providing high-quality, cheap basic medical care to low-income and underprivileged people in West Bengal. Their goal is to make healthcare available to the poorest and most disadvantaged people. RHCF has 17 centres around the state, with 12 of them being in rural regions. Their mission is to continue to improve the health and lives of those who are socially and economically disadvantaged.

11. HelpAge India

Help Age is one of India’s most well-known nonprofit organisations dedicated to the welfare of the aged. It was founded in 1978 and has been serving the community for nearly four decades. They give free medical care to the elderly who are in need. One of the foundations of this organisation is cataract surgery. HelpAge performs over 45,000 eye procedures for the elderly who are blind in 21 states. They also give intense care to cancer patients who are nearing the end of their lives.

12. Smile Foundation

Smile Foundation is a national development organisation with 168 projects spanning over 25 Indian states. It was founded in 2002. Child education, healthcare, youth employment, and girl child and woman empowerment are all areas of attention. Smile Foundation works tirelessly to provide education to impoverished children in tough situations such as child labour, children of the poorest of parents, children with uncommon disabilities, disaster-affected children, and children from slums. It has yearly reached over 3,000,000 people through its 168 initiatives.

What is the contribution of NGOs in healthcare in India?

The majority of NGOs, roughly 84 per cent, are involved in outreach efforts. For more than 60% of NGOs working primarily in the health sector, outreach is their primary health activity. The major health activity of roughly 88 per cent of subsidiary health NGOs in India is outreach.

Which is the best NGO in India?

All foundations in India contribute to the healthcare sector in very many ways. It is difficult to pick and select one from all the possible list above.

How can NGOs have an important role in the health sector?

Non-Governmental Organizations, or NGOs, as they are commonly known, are non-profit organisations that carry out a variety of activities for the benefit of impoverished individuals and society as a whole. As the name implies, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) operate independently of government funding, yet they may collaborate closely with government agencies to carry out their goals.

NGOs take on and carry out initiatives to improve the well-being of the communities in which they work. They seek to solve a variety of issues and concerns that exist in society. NGOs are non-profit organisations, which mean they have no economic interests. Individuals, corporations, and institutions donate to non-profit organisations.

• Help raise funds
• Help create awareness
• Help bridging the gap
• Help find financial aide
• Help bring better healthcare services to the needy

Which is the largest NGO in India?

Give India is one of the largest NGOs in India

Summary

Healthcare is one of the most essential services offered in a country. When the citizens of the country are giving good healthcare, they are health and in a position to better contribute to the GDP of the country. However, poverty is often a single-handed reason where people do not pay attention to healthcare. Hence, NGOs play an important role to bring good healthcare to those in need of it.

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