It is located in Vidarbha Region of Maharashtra, India. Currently the project connects to 50 villages covering 100,000 population delivering healthcare services through hub clinic and connected to CARE Nagpur Hospital. The project is operational from February 2008 and treated more then 1000 patients and carried out more than 200 camps in the villages. The tele medicine link enables for specialist and referral consultations. Currently the project is supported by ILO Micro insurance Facility for the innovation of “Insuring Primary Care- A Sustainable Financing Solution for Rural Primary Health”

Yavatmal

Blood camp

Community Health Clinics

Treating the sick at Dhanora Village

Team

Community Recognition

Village Campaign

Linkages with Aanganwadi Workers

CARE Foundation has taken up the operations of the health module of the Byraju Foundation from July 1st 2009 onwards. The Foundation covers 200 villages with million people population coverage in 6 districts of Coastal Andhra Region. The foundation has been appreciated by Indian government and international agencies for the innovative healthcare delivery channels through “close to client model” of fixed mobile doctor covering the villages. With the ongoing work in the health component, CARE Foundation would want to ADD-ON to the services being provided by BYRRAJU and replicate the unique innovations piloted at Yavatmal in Byraju in the areas of handheld device technology and micro insurance products.

The service provided was well received by the population with average attendance reaching close to 100,000 patients in a month. But each time service fees were introduced/enhanced the attendance dropped down and by end 2008, it was down to 55,000 visits per month, though the number of villages had reached 200. The chronic disease attendance progressively grew. On an average 500 patients are referred to partner institutions(local medical colleges) for secondary care every month.