Why Health Cannot Wait
Last mile delivery of healthcare is always challenging in a country as vast and diverse as India. The uneven distribution of healthcare infrastructure, as well as medical professionals, makes quality healthcare services inaccessible to a large population living in rural areas.
Urban slum dwellers, on the other hand, suffer from lack of awareness, adverse living conditions and the unwillingness to lose a day’s wage in order to reach the nearest medical facility.
As an effort to strengthen the country’s existing healthcare system and reduce the out-of-pocket expenses on health, Smile Foundation’s ‘Health Cannot Wait’ initiative is working to make quality healthcare accessible to all. The programme takes preventive and curative services to the doorsteps of vulnerable communities, with a special focus on women and children.
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Our Interventions
Mobile Healthcare
Reaching the unreached through fully-equipped Mobile Healthcare Units staffed with doctors and paramedics, providing OPD services, point of care test facilities and medicines
Telemedicine
Connecting people from remote rural areas with doctors for specialized healthcare from nearby urban health centres, through e-Health Kiosks and Telemedicine Centres
Health Camps
Providing need-based healthcare services to specific target groups through health camps with specialized doctors, point of care tests, and sometimes surgical facilities
Govt. Convergence
Enhancing reach and capacity of Government Health Centres by integrating telemedicine at sub-centres, training of frontline workers and upgradation of PHCs
Stories of Hope
Gowramma, Karnataka
We spent all our lives working for our children. Now that they are all grown up, they don't even visit us. My husband is 70 and works as a security guard to earn for both of us. But, our health has started failing us now. Most of what my husband earns, we would spend on medicines. Going to the government hospital is not easy for us either. For the last two years, this medical van has started coming to our neighbourhood. The young team reminds us of our own kids. We talk to them and along with our health, our loneliness also seems to get better. They come to our home with medicines if we can’t make it to the van. They hold our hand and take us for a check-up. I can only say that for old and forgotten people like us, this is a big help.
Gowramma, Karnataka
We spent all our lives working for our children. Now that they are all grown up, they don't even visit us. My husband is 70 and works as a security guard to earn for both of us. But, our health has started failing us now. Most of what my husband earns, we would spend on medicines. Going to the government hospital is not easy for us either. For the last two years, this medical van has started coming to our neighbourhood. The young team reminds us of our own kids. We talk to them and along with our health, our loneliness also seems to get better. They come to our home with medicines if we can’t make it to the van. They hold our hand and take us for a check-up. I can only say that for old and forgotten people like us, this is a big help.
Gowramma, Karnataka
We spent all our lives working for our children. Now that they are all grown up, they don't even visit us. My husband is 70 and works as a security guard to earn for both of us. But, our health has started failing us now. Most of what my husband earns, we would spend on medicines. Going to the government hospital is not easy for us either. For the last two years, this medical van has started coming to our neighbourhood. The young team reminds us of our own kids. We talk to them and along with our health, our loneliness also seems to get better. They come to our home with medicines if we can’t make it to the van. They hold our hand and take us for a check-up. I can only say that for old and forgotten people like us, this is a big help.
Gowramma, Karnataka
We spent all our lives working for our children. Now that they are all grown up, they don't even visit us. My husband is 70 and works as a security guard to earn for both of us. But, our health has started failing us now. Most of what my husband earns, we would spend on medicines. Going to the government hospital is not easy for us either. For the last two years, this medical van has started coming to our neighbourhood. The young team reminds us of our own kids. We talk to them and along with our health, our loneliness also seems to get better. They come to our home with medicines if we can’t make it to the van. They hold our hand and take us for a check-up. I can only say that for old and forgotten people like us, this is a big help.
Stories of Hope
Gowramma, Karnataka
We spent all our lives working for our children. Now that they are all grown up, they don't even visit us. My husband is 70 and works as a security guard to earn for both of us. But, our health has started failing us now. Most of what my husband earns, we would spend on medicines. Going to the government hospital is not easy for us either. For the last two years, this medical van has started coming to our neighbourhood. The young team reminds us of our own kids. We talk to them and along with our health, our loneliness also seems to get better. They come to our home with medicines if we can’t make it to the van. They hold our hand and take us for a check-up. I can only say that for old and forgotten people like us, this is a big help.
Gowramma, Karnataka
We spent all our lives working for our children. Now that they are all grown up, they don't even visit us. My husband is 70 and works as a security guard to earn for both of us. But, our health has started failing us now. Most of what my husband earns, we would spend on medicines. Going to the government hospital is not easy for us either. For the last two years, this medical van has started coming to our neighbourhood. The young team reminds us of our own kids. We talk to them and along with our health, our loneliness also seems to get better. They come to our home with medicines if we can’t make it to the van. They hold our hand and take us for a check-up. I can only say that for old and forgotten people like us, this is a big help.
Gowramma, Karnataka
We spent all our lives working for our children. Now that they are all grown up, they don't even visit us. My husband is 70 and works as a security guard to earn for both of us. But, our health has started failing us now. Most of what my husband earns, we would spend on medicines. Going to the government hospital is not easy for us either. For the last two years, this medical van has started coming to our neighbourhood. The young team reminds us of our own kids. We talk to them and along with our health, our loneliness also seems to get better. They come to our home with medicines if we can’t make it to the van. They hold our hand and take us for a check-up. I can only say that for old and forgotten people like us, this is a big help.
Gowramma, Karnataka
We spent all our lives working for our children. Now that they are all grown up, they don't even visit us. My husband is 70 and works as a security guard to earn for both of us. But, our health has started failing us now. Most of what my husband earns, we would spend on medicines. Going to the government hospital is not easy for us either. For the last two years, this medical van has started coming to our neighbourhood. The young team reminds us of our own kids. We talk to them and along with our health, our loneliness also seems to get better. They come to our home with medicines if we can’t make it to the van. They hold our hand and take us for a check-up. I can only say that for old and forgotten people like us, this is a big help.
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Enhancing reach of Govt. health initiatives by integrating telemedicine at sub-centres and upgradation of PHCs
“State government is committed to improving accessibility of healthcare in the state and efforts like the launch of mobile healthcare units will aid in improving accessibility,” he said after flagging off these mobile units launched by MSD Pharmaceuticals and Smile Foundation.
Post Pandemic, for a Happier Planet and Healthier People
The World Health Day is being celebrated on April 7, the day the World Health Organisation (WHO) was formed in 1948. The WHO is focusing on “global attention on urgent actions needed to keep humans and the planet healthy and foster a movement to create societies focused on well-being." Aptly, the theme for 2022 is ‘Our Planet, Our Health’.
Smile Foundation receives Certificate of Appreciation from District Health Administration, Nuh, Government of Haryana,
Smile Foundation has received a certificate of appreciation from the Nuh District Ad ministration Health Department, Government of Haryana, for its efforts to enhance the quality of healthcare services in the district. Smile Foundation has established telemedicine centers and trained frontline workers in the district.
GSK launches 4 mobile dental vans in Gurgaon
The four vans were flagged off in the presence of senior leaders of the GlaxoSmithKline Asia Private Limited, along with the leaders of Smile Foundation.
In a bid to tackle barriers in everyday health and address oral health concerns in the country, four mobile dental vans were flagged off on Tuesday by Dr. Ram Prakash Rai, District Epidemiologist (IDPS) Civil Surgeon Office, Gurugram, to serve the underprivileged communities.
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