Healthcare Didi

75% of dispensaries, 60% of hospitals, and  80% of doctors are located in urban areas.

limited state-run health Infrastructure

Government hospital bed for every 2,046 individuals In India ( US 1 Bed for 345)

One government doctor for every 10,189 people

State-run hospital for every 90,343 citizens respectively.

Shortage of specialist doctors at rural community health centers

Limited penetration of health Insurance

2.2% have private health insurance,

Only 0.2% in rural areas

India is one of the largest countries for diabetes. 

Over 55% of women have anemia.

Today at Mann Deshi’s covid hospital, a 55 years old vegetable vendor Laxmi, a covid patient, found out that she had high blood pressure and diabetes when admitted for the covid infection. In India, the centuries, we cannot screen and diagnose patients for comorbidities like diabetes, blood pressure, etc., due to a lack of awareness and basic accessibilities.

Mann Deshi's healthcare didi program aims to provide  Primary Health Screening services to women at their doorstep. We plan to provide opportunities to rural women to check their Blood Pressure,  Diabetes, Hemoglobin, Anemia, etc., at their doorstep for free of cost. It is a Public-Private Partnership Program where we are partnering with government hospitals for further diagnostics. The program is based on the principles of availability of health care service, accessibility, awareness about it, and affordability. It consists of health awareness, education, health screening, specialist consulting.

Our healthcare didi's will be going to rural women's houses with the device that screens for Hemoglobin, Anemia, blood pressure, and Diabetes.
Mann Deshi will not just provide the screening but also connect them to government-run hospitals for further treatment and medicines. 

How?

Selection of the villages

Five trained healthcare didi

BEL-AIR Hospital will provide the required training for health workers 

The foundation will provide all the necessary devices and salaries to health workers.

These Health Didi workers will go to the doorsteps of the rural women for primary screening. 

Technology?

Screening machine
Mann Deshi's mobile application for collecting data on women's health from nutrition to daily habits 

Stakeholders: Rural women (majority from underprivileged communities)
Partners: Mann Deshi, Government Hospitals, Local village government, women

Imapct

Early detection

Screening of 20,000 women in a year

The cost-saving for 20,000 women is Over 1 crore INR

Opportunity for over 10,000 women to use free Government and Mann Deshi OPD and healthcare

Decrease in the mortality rate

Saving lives of thousands of women

Awareness of pregnancy, STDs, and sanitation through Mann Deshi healthcare center

Healthcare savings

Financial savings

Mann Deshi Foundation works with rural women of India. So far, we have empowered over 700,000 rural women through our various programs of mobile skill business school, skill training centers, sports, employment opportunities, agricultural programs, and health. Since the pandemic Mann Deshi has started the health Initiative; we are running two public-private partnership model with the state government of Maharashtra. Our hospitals also won the best rural hospital award. We have recovered over 8000 patients in the past one and half years. 

Why we believe Mann Deshi is the right platform to serve rural women at their doorstep because we have the truest with over half a million rural women of India through our different initiatives, even in coivd because of Mann Deshi's bond and trust with the rural women, we provided 25,000 women vaccination at the time of vaccine crunch. Women trust Mann Deshi, and they believe in us. We believe that healthcare is most valuable, and it's our accountability to provide the best healthcare to the last mile population.

Below are some of the work we have done in our healthcare intervention. 

The doorstep healthcare model (Healthcare didi) of Mann Deshi Foundation is today's necessity and the Innovative technological cost-effective model. Mann Deshi believes that screening and diagnosis for primary health care comorbidities are crucial in rural India. We would like MIT Solve to be the technological support for this initiative since the data we will be collecting fo=rom the rural women will play a massive role in the healthcare understanding of their food habits, daily habits, consumption, and healthcare expenditure will be the key. We believe apart from the funding part; we would like MIT solve to be part of creating data applications for the model as well as exploring new simplified healthcare devices for doorstep screening

This is the only available door-to-door health screening service in rural India. Apart from that, this is powered by technology (healthcare devices) and data to build a better healthcare platform for the rural population. Also, our program is connected with all the government hospitals for further diagnostic.

Next Year Impact: Healthcare Screening of 20,000 women in Maharashtra

Next Five Years: Screening of 500,000 women across India with the data collection and technology improvements. For the next five years working in different states like Asam and Chattisgarh

Mobile application
Screening devices: Blood Pressure / Diabetes / Hemoglobin / Anemia

To begin with, we are a women's leadership organization. The Healthcare model is for rural women since they are the last to reach the hospital. We provide all the services regardless of their religion and caste. Mainly all our services are provided to underprivileged communities of all color, caste, and beliefs. 

Mann Deshi Foundation will provide all the HR costs related to this program, covering healthcare didi's who will be visiting individual households for screening women; prices for the coordinator; doctors' visits; vehicle; technical fees; and machinery for screening mobile applications. The pilot program will be free of charge, while the operating cost will be calculated from the last woman.

After one year of implementing the program, we will charge a minimal fee to the rural women to cover the operating cost. We will be raising funds only for the machinery equipment and mobile application.

Through our mobile business school model, we provided rural women with 17 different skill-development courses. In the first year, the program was fully funded; for the last six years, we have been charging a minimal amount to women who take the different skill courses. The course fees are used for operations, like trainers fees, fuel for the mobile bus, etc.