Treating 3500 Poor TB Patients in India & Cambodia

With your support Operation ASHA continues to achieve new milestones and set new standards. Many exciting things have happened recently.

Operation ASHA’s President Dr. Shelly Batra was invited on World TB Day this year to give a presentation in Washington D.C. to the U.S. Senate, as part of an advocacy endeavour. This was to raise awareness about the need to accelerate efforts towards TB eradication.

She also gave a radio interview on the Global Activism series on the Chicago Radio with WBEZ/National Public Radio’s Worldview on 26 March 2015. You can hear the interview by clicking here. She was recognized for her outstanding contribution at the Healthcare Awards on 21st January at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi.

Operation ASHA was featured in an episode of Accelerate India, on CNBC-TV18 in India, for its use of fingerprint-scanning to ensure adherence to medication and effective patient-provider communication.

Forbes magazine published an article by Will Greene featuring OpASHA for embracing new mobile health technologies to help fight TB efficiently and cost effectively. A leading newspaper in India, The Tribune, featured an article “TB control requires new technologies” talking about OpASHA’s novel model in the area of TB care. Click here to read this article.

Sandeep Ahuja, CEO, Operation ASHA was in Chicago to speak in the Social Impact Leadership Series on May 18. He also spoke at the Annual Benefit Dinner of Globemed at University of Chicago on May 23. 

Sandeep was a speaker at the UChicago Alliance for the Civil Society. 

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 has developed powerful innovations, says Aleem Walji, Director of the World Bank Innovation Lab. He goes on, ''I feel inspired when I see an organization that;s doing something in a new way or creating new delivery model to serve the poor. Operation ASHA...has fingerprint recognition mechanism for tracking patients supplied. But when I went to see them in the slums of Delhi, I realized that their work involves all kinds of innovations...These are powerful innnovations''. Full interview is available here.

Our eCompliance technology has been customised for replication in Kenya, Dominican republic, Uganda and Peru

Of course, focus of Operation ASHA continues to be supporting/ treating patients and preventing TB. An example is the tribal area of Ghati Gaon in the state of Madhya Pradesh in Central India.A great percentage of the patients regularly missed doses in this area, because they were away during the day earning livelihood in surrounding towns. 

To eliminate this problem, our highly motivated health workers changed their work hours to late evening and early morning and succeeded in virtually eliminating missed doses, hitting a perfect zero for most of the time. 

See how these workers deliver care in remote villages. 

Apart from this, we are also 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.

Project Report

Donation Utilization:
This quarter Operation ASHA raised $411. 

Click here to read Tuberculosis brought a near stop to young 18 year old Nisha's life if not for the timely treatment provided by Operation ASHA.

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.