By Sandeep Ahuja | CEO
With your support Operation ASHA continues to achieve new milestones and set new standards. Many exciting things have happened recently.
You will be delighted to know that Dr. Shelly Batra, President & Co-Founder of Operation ASHA, has been selected as Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2014 by Schwab Foundation. Winners were selected in recognition of their innovative approach and potential for global impact. Click here to know more about the awards.
Inside OpASHA
The eCompliance, our comprehensive low-cost technology solution for tracking and monitoring TB patients, is constantly being upgraded to suit the needs of the people. Recently, our technology team launched a text free version of eCompliance to be used in zero literacy areas such as the tribal areas of Madhya Pradesh and Jharkhand. We successfully transitioned eCompliance from Net books to TABLETS for improved efficacy and cost-efficiency.
Operation ASHA also piloted eCompliance in Cambodia (Takeo Province).To date, more than 140 patients are registered with eCompliance.Click here to see what a successfully treated female TB patient has to say about Operation ASHA.
Apart from that, We shall be testing 10,000 TB patients for Diabetes, and the first phase has already been started in Delhi. This implementation is an imperative tool to detect co-morbidities and impact more lives positively.
Operation ASHA's work was also presented in a number of other international conferences. These are: Geneva Health Forum in April 2014, Annual Forum of the IPIHD,“International Partnership for Innovative Health Care Delivery” in Washington DC, among others.
Major Media mentions
The Guardian, February 25, 2014 “Social enterprise: can it succeed where traditional development has failed?“ By Deborah Doane
The Lancet, March 24, 2014 “Tuberculosis control needs a complete and patient-centric solution” By Madhukar Pai, Prashant Yadav & Ravi Anupindi
Public Health England: Annual TB Update 2014, March, 2014 “Operation ASHA’s eCompliance – a solution to reaching the 3 million?”
Stars Foundation, March 24, 2014 “Treating TB in Urban India and Rural Uganda”
Economic Times, March 24, 2014 “Two Indian social entrepreneurs Shelly Batra and Chetna Vijay Sinha recognised by Schwab Foundation”
Business Standard, March 24, 2014 ”2 Indian social entrepreneurs recognised by Schwab Foundation”
Center for Health Market Innovations, March 31, 2014 “Reaching the missing 3 million: Exploring the evidence behind efforts to harness informal health providers and fight TB” By Christina Synowiec
Ministry of External Affairs:Government of India, March 27, 2014, “ASHA’s Shelly Batra, Mann Deshi’s Chetna Sinha recipients of Schwab Foundation’s Social Entrepreneur awards” By Deepak Chitnis
Project Report
Donation Utilization:
This quarter Operation ASHA raised $1017.
Part of the funds were utilized to provide groceries, like wheat flour, rice, cooking oil and cereals, for five extremely poor patients in the tribal area of Gwalior.
The rest of the money was utilized in treating TB patients.
Click here to read how Operation ASHA helped a female TB patient "Krishna".
We have been able to support these disadvantaged TB patients only because of your continued love and support. Make a donation today and help us go further in achieving our mission of eradicating tuberculosis.
Thank you.
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