Healthcare in India

A GRIM REALITY

Over 1.25 million children die annually in India.

Diseases such as dengue fever, hepatitis, tuberculosis, malaria and pneumonia continue to plague India

58% of children have not completed their immunization schedule and 14% have not received a single vaccine

48% of all children have stunted growth due to malnutrition.

45% Indian women are married before they turn 18 resulting in early pregnancies, higher morbidity and

mortality rates.

12 million girls were aborted in the last three decades in India

50% of all villagers have no access to healthcare providers.

Infrastructure like hospitals, roads, water and sanitation are lacking in rural areas

About 70 per cent of our doctors live in urban India, whereas 70 per cent of our citizens live in rural India.

Situation for Urban Slum dwellers is worse

Government spending on healthcare is grossly inadequate. 39 million people are forced into poverty because of medical expenditure.

For the underprivileged survival is a struggle – basic Healthcare doesn’t figure in the scheme of priorities

Need of the hour…

An innovative and practical solution

SMILE ON WHEELSMobile Hospital for the Underprivileged

REACHING THE UNREACHED

Provides basic health services at the doorsteps of the marginalized population in urban slums and remote rural areas

Addresses the critical issues of accessibility and affordability of primary health care

Smile on Wheels launched in 2006

Smt.Sheela Dixit,Chief Minister of Delhi flagged off the first SOW

State of the art mobile hospital with advanced features

ECG Facility

Pathology facility

LCD facility to promote health awareness

GPS tracking

A professionally qualified team of medical & paramedical staff providing services

Team Composition

MBBS Doctor

Lab Technician

Pharmacists

ANM

Community Mobiliser

Project Coordinator

Driver

Focus on serving the marginalized particularly women and children

Neo natal care

Growth Monitoring

First Aid Services

Reaching elderly

Reaching the physically challenged

Pathology examination

Free distribution of medicines

Going beyond curative services…… promoting holistic health care

Health Awareness session for women

Campaign against female feticide

Health Program for School Children

Basic health checkup and growth monitoring

Health & Hygiene Awareness Sessions

The journey so far….

17 Smile on Wheels operational across 11 States

State No of SOW

Locations

Gujarat 3 1-Ahmedabad, 1-Patan, 1-Jamnagar

Delhi 1 1 in Delhi

Jharkhand 1 RanchiRajasthan 4 3 in Barmer, 1 in Jaipur

Uttar Pradesh 1 1 in Varanasi

Bihar 1 Madhepura

Maharashtra 1 Nagpur

Andhra Pradesh

1 Hyderabad

Haryana 1 Faridabad

Karnataka 2 Bengaluru

West Bengal 1 Kolkata

Reaching over 13.54 lakh people every month across 373 urban slums and remote villages

Currently, benefitting over 2 lakh beneficiaries

Since its inception SoW has directly benefited over

5.26 lakh underprivileged beneficiaries.

RECOGNITIONS

'Healthcare Leadership Award 2012' instituted by Knowledge Resource Development & Welfare Group.

GE Healthcare Modern MediCare Excellence Award as "NGO of the Year" for innovative contribution towards health care services for the poor & needy.

A 2009 report by the Rockefeller Foundation on Innovative Pro-Poor Healthcare Financing and Delivery Models has also mentioned of the SoW programme , “Focusing on women and children, Smile-on-Wheels is a national multi-centric mobile hospital program that provides medical care to rural and semirural areas and urban slums where healthcare are scarce, non-existent, or non-functional”

Our supporters in the journey

Shri Pranab Mukherjee & Mr. Pratip Chaudhuri Chairman and CMD State Bank of India handing over the key to Mr. Santanu Mishra Co-Founder and Executive Trustee, Smile Foundation

Former US Ambassador to India, H.E. Timothy J. Romer visits SOW in Delhi

Famous filmaker Muzaffar Ali flagging off launch of SoW in Varanasi

MP Mr.Harish Chaudhary flagging off SoW in Barmer, Rajasthan in Sep 2012

MISSION

Bring Smile on Wheels to Mumbai

Mumbai Smile on Wheels all set for the launch

• Bring healthcare facilities to the doorsteps of over 2 lakh beneficiaries across 9 slums of Mumbai namely Santacruz, Vakholam Mahakali, Jogeshwari, Goregao, Jogeshwari, Malwani, Bandra and Khar

• Directly benefit over 16000 underprivileged annually through mobile clinics

• Flag off / Grace the launch and be a CHANGE MAKER

Smile on Wheels is the national program of Smile Foundation.

Smile Foundation is a national level development organization currently reaching out to more than 300,000 underprivileged people directly through 160 welfare projects on the issues of education, healthcare, livelihood,

women empowerment, and advocacy across 25 states of India.

Smile Foundation dreams to take health services to as many underprivileged people as possible.

And there are (S)miles to go…

LET’S SPREAD HEALTHY SMILES TOGETHER

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