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Aquinas Edassery is the founder of Swasthya Swaraj[1], an Indian non-profit working on healthcare and tribal welfare from Bhawanipatna.
Swasthya Swaraj
Swasthya Swaraj runs the Swasthya Swaraj Comprehensive Community Health Programme in the tribal-dominated Thuamul Rampur block of Kalahandi district, delivering clinical healthcare through local centres while building community capacity for sustainable health outcomes.
Swasthya Swaraj reports the following, on its own site:
- Worked across 78 villages and hamlets drawn from 7 gram panchayats of Thuamul Rampur block, Kalahandi district, Odisha in 2019-20.
- Its two 24x7 health centres at Kaniguma and Kerpai saw 11,411 patients in 2019-20, including 8,263 women and children and 2,527 under-five children.
- Trained 72 tribal women as 'Swasthya Sathis' — frontline health workers in tribal villages — under a three-year curriculum with ongoing training (2019-20).
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References
- [1] “Dr. Aquinas Edassery (Jemma Joseph Edasserry) MD(Med.)” — Swasthya Swaraj. Source
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