Health Camps for Children in Rural India

COVID continues to ravage families and communities in India and safety restrictions continue to pose challenges to organize health camps for the children in our target area. The Desai Foundation is continuing to put the crucial response to COVID at the forefront of our work, while also maintaining our regular programming. Our COVID response provides crucial resources that have not been delivered to the rural villages of India. 

From March through August 2021, in order to best manage the continued health of rural children and their families in India during COVID, we have reached more than 1.9 million people and has achieved the following outcomes:

• Guidance provided to more than 5,000 individuals regarding about Vaccine information, bereavement support, and other support, via our COVID Helpline;
• Dissemination of accurate COVID information to 140,000 individuals;
• Deployment of 500,000 COVID tests in Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, and Uttar Pradesh;
• Successful distribution of the following supplies and equipment:1,000,000+ Cotton Masks, 29 Oxygen Concentrators, 35 Bi-PAB Machines, 7,000 Surgical Masks (N95), 35,000 liters of Domex Cleaner (Industrial Sanitizer), 18 Ventilators, 10,000 Hygiene Kits, 11,000+ Food Rations (food for a month for a family), 22,166 Individual Meals; and 
• Implementation of seven COVID Isolation and Relief Centers, to allow families with COVID positive members to safely isolate. Each isolation and relief center is equipped with beds, food, medical supplies, PPE, rapid testing, sanitary napkins, medical screenings, and comfort for isolation for pre-critical stage patients; started distributing COVID medical kits (thermometers, sanitizer, oximeter, PPE kits, and vitamins) to allow rural families to monitor and care for their families at home, keeping children protected as best as possible until they can be vaccinated.

We have safely resumed our Health Camps including information and services realted to COVID, general health and MHM. These camps are even more important now, as we work to keep the vulnerable, often overlooked, rural communities and children healthy.

Links:

• Desai Foundation COVID Response