Dr. Sailakshmi Balijepalli
FounderFounder of Ekam Foundation
Dr. Sailakshmi Balijepalli is the founder of Ekam Foundation (2009)[1], an Indian non-profit working on healthcare and women & children from Virudhunagar.
Ekam Foundation
Ekam Foundation is a nonprofit founded by paediatrician Dr. Sailakshmi Balijepally to reduce infant and maternal mortality in India. Based in Virudhunagar, Tamil Nadu with a presence in Chennai, it supplements care at primary health centres, district hospitals and tertiary government hospitals, focusing specifically on neonatal and infant healthcare over more than a decade of work.
Ekam Foundation reports the following, on its own site:
- 54,529+ children
- 13,114+ mothers
- 25 Government Newborn ICUs (SNCUs) were set-up, operationalized across Chhattisgarh over a period of eight years.
- 26,000+ Frontline workers across 1,421 Gram Panchayats trained on preventing child marriage and violence against children
- Organisations
- 1
- Based in
- Virudhunagar
- Founded
- 2009
- Press
- 1
References
- [1] “Ekam was founded in 2009 by Late Dr. Sailakshmi Balijepalli,” — Ekam Foundation. Source
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