Impact India Foundation’s Contribution to the Global Health landscape AHIMSA ROUND TABLE, Cape Town June 22, 2015 1.

Impact India Foundation’s Contribution to the Global Health landscape

AHIMSA ROUND TABLE,

Cape Town

June 22, 2015

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About Impact India Foundation

• An International Initiative Against Avoidable Disablement

• Arising out of a United Nations’ General Assembly Resolution for Cure and Prevention of Disablement

• A Catalyst in partnership with Government, Non Profits, Private sector and the Community for National Health problems

• Uses Existing Delivery Systems and Available Infrastructure

• First and flagship of 19 Impact Foundations established worldwide. 2

Lifeline Express : World’s First Hospital TrainServed about one million disabled, free of cost, across 20 States in rural India

(100,000 surgeries) with the donated skills of 200,000 medical personnel, sponsored by Corporates, Government, Foundations and others.Four Lifeline Express trains in China, Two in South Africa, Floating Hospital in Bangladesh,

Lake Clinics in Cambodia,

“A Surgeon’s Dream”

THE LIFELINE EXPRESS - The Magic Train of India

Lay-out:• Consists of five coaches equipped with state-of-the-art medical

equipment• Coach 1: Generator set, Berths for Operation Theatre (OT) staff,

Pantry & Kitchen• Coach 2: Drawing Room, Doctors Changing Room, Administrative

Office, Medicine Storage room and Sterilisation area• Coaches 3 & 4: Two Operation Theatres, each with Autoclave

facilities and a Recovery Room• Coach 5: Auditorium for Training with LCD TV and CCTV

connected to O.T.; Dental Units, Epilepsy Treatment and Vision Screening room

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Lifeline Express Hospital Train

Surgeries: Cleft Lips , Facial Deformities, Orthopaedic, Cataract and Hearing Impairment, Epilepsy and Dental Treatment; Distribution of Calipers, Tricycles, Crutches and Hearing

Aids; Training of local medical professionals and much more…

Community Health Initiative

A sustainable and replicable model, in partnership with Government, in alignment with the Government’s National Health Mission and UN 2015

Millennium Development Goals.

• To create community demand, build capacity of existing infrastructure, use available delivery systems to establish a fully functional, community owned health delivery system.

• Commenced in 2005, to gradually cover eight Tribal Blocks (population – 2 mn.), aimed at 50% reduction in existing disabilities through curative measures and prevention of future disabilities. Achieved 72% reduction.

• Being scaled up with Government support to cover 46 Primary Health Centres – a population of 3 million. 6

Community Health InitiativeActivities

Treating MalnutritionTraining Government Health staff Students Rally - World Disability Day

Distribution of Home Garden Kits School Health ProgrammeCommunity Empowerment through Village Health Committees 7

Community Health Initiative

• 50% of India’s 113 million adolescent girls are anaemic • 1 out of 3 children is underweight at birth (less than 2.5 kg), and

most likely to grow up to be stunted. • 42% of children, under age 5, are malnourished. • 285 million people sleep hungry every night cannot possibly create

a productive and efficient workforce………….• Only healthy mothers can produce a healthy nation, and so

attention to nutrition for adolescent girls is of paramount importance. The need for good nutrition is based as much on good human development as it is on good economics.

Adolescence in girls, offers a unique window of opportunity to break the cycle of malnutrition at the individual and inter-generational levels. Investing in their nutrition is a prerequisite to ensure adequate returns on investments made on their education, livelihoods and empowerment.

Activities: Life Skills Education, Anaemia Control, Cultivation of Kitchen Gardens, Rubella Immunisation, Capacity Building of Government Health Staff & Village Health Committees.

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9India’s future

Community Growth Chart of an AWCEach blue dot represents a child’s present nutritional

status

Thank you10