Swades Foundation partners with Government of Maharashtra
Aims to boost healthcare systems in Raigad district
Ronnie and Zarina Screwvala’s Swades Foundation have announced a strategic partnership with the Public Health Department, Government of Maharashtra to further develop and implement interventions in crucial areas of healthcare in Raigad district of Maharashtra. Swades Foundation will collaborate and work extensively with the Public Health Department for the benefit of the community in six blocks namely Mhasla, Tala, Poladpur, Shrivardhan, Mangaon and Mahad and may consider extending the association to other blocks in the state.
Under the MoU, the Public Health Department will provide technical support for production of IEC material for maternal child health and nutrition programmes, facilitate training and capacity building of Swades health facilitators and community volunteers to deliver services, facilitate periodic meeting for exchange of information and update on progress, provide and share relevant data of the region, adopt community health women volunteers as ASHA workers wherever there is a shortfall among others.
The MoU will help Swades Foundation strengthen their ongoing efforts in the region across 2000 villages to provide preventive and promotive health services to a population of 471000. Swades has 1059 community health women volunteers known as SwaRaksha Mitras and provides mobile vision care with three state-of-the-art mobile vans to screen over 1.4 lakh villagers with refractive errors. They have provided over 26,000 high quality spectacles and conducted 4400 free cataract surgeries. With a focus on anaemia and malnutrition, Swades has tied up with Anganwadis to detect children suffering from it and help them with complementary nutrition. Other measures also involve screening and management of children with heart diseases.
EH News Bureau
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