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Free Community Health Programs in India - We'll Match Your Donation.*
Overview
Support Free Community Health Programs in India.* We’ll Double Your Donation To Double Your Impact!
Context
The Vellore and Thiruvanamalai Districts of Tamil Nadu, South India have many areas without accessible medical care. Lack of accessible quality health care unevenly affects people experiencing poverty within cities and villages as well as the surrounding countryside. There is a substantial increase in health risks including heart disease, diabetes, respiratory diseases, blood diseases including Covid, insect borne diseases including malaria and dengue fever, and diseases worsened by lack of nutrition. Lack of accessible healthcare is one of the contributing factors to increased disease for children and adults in the underserved areas we reach out to.
Activities
Free Community Health Programs specialize on commonly diagnosed health concerns in the local areas. The Programs are conducted by The Sri Narayani Hospital and Research Centre Health Care Group as a part of their Social Outreach Programs. Each Health Program will have a specific medical theme as well as general medicine and the associated specialized doctors, nurses and support staff attend. Medical screening could focus on high blood pressure, diabetes, gynecology, bone density, ophthalmology or specialized medical conditions prevalent in the local areas we serve. Primary treatments include free vitamins, minerals and common prescriptions for common local diseases. The programs we support help neighbourhoods and villages which generally have little access to regular medical treatment and very little access to free medical care. All of the results of the consultations are recorded and each individual will eventually develop a complete health record. The medical team provides free primary medical diagnosis and treatments including early medical screening to all, regardless of faith, class or economic status.
The Free Community Health Programs are conducted to screen the community for risk factors with a view to identifying diseases and preventing its complications. Our team of doctors and nurses treat minor illnesses at the site and detect major illnesses including noncommunicable diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, cardiac ailments, and cancers of breast, cervix and prostate and refer them for further management and follow up at SNHRC Hospital.
The Department of Social Medicine at The Sri Narayani Hospital Group plays a vital role in taking Hospital Care to the surrounding community through a wide network of community centres, schools, as well as public and private buildings. The Department seeks to understand the effect of socio-economic, genetic, and environmental factors that have an impact on local people leading to disease and disability. The Department of Social Medicine establishes preventive and prophylactic medical and health screening measures to control and protect individuals and the community at large.
*Donations will be matched when made through Canada Helps to a total of C$4500 until December 31, 2025
Jan 2025

One of the hospital groups that we support is The Sri Narayani Hospital and Allied Medical Services Group. The Hospital Group motto is “Service With Love” and the purpose of this organization is to decommercialize medicine and make quality health care accessible, to incorporate human values in medical care and to include spiritual well being as a medical concept. This is the main campus and The Nursing College and other colleges and hospitals are on auxiliary sites.