Suniti Ahuja

Founder

Suniti Ahuja is the founder of Operation ASHA [1], an Indian non-profit working on healthcare.

Suniti Ahuja is one of the original founders of Operation ASHA, a non-profit organisation that provides tuberculosis detection, treatment and counselling to disadvantaged communities in India and Cambodia. She serves on its board of directors.

Career

Ahuja holds an MA in economics from Maharshi Dayanand University and began her career as a lecturer in economics.

She was among the founders of Operation ASHA, which opened its first tuberculosis treatment centre in September 2006. In the organisation's early years, when its budget was too small to employ professional staff, she gave her services without payment over a long period; Operation ASHA credits her contribution as essential to what the organisation later became.[2][3][4]

Operation ASHA

Operation ASHA delivers TB detection, treatment support and counselling to disadvantaged communities through local health workers and low-cost technology, working alongside India's national TB elimination programme and in other countries. It focuses on preventing drug-resistant TB by ensuring patients complete treatment.

Operation ASHA reports the following, on its own site: