Priyanka Kadam
FounderFounder of Snakebite Healing & Education Society (SHE-India)
Priyanka Kadam is the founder of Snakebite Healing & Education Society (SHE-India) (2014)[1], an Indian non-profit working on healthcare and rural & agriculture from Mumbai.
Snakebite Healing & Education Society (SHE-India)
Snakebite Healing & Education Society (SHE-India) is a Mumbai-based civil society organisation founded by Priyanka Kadam and dedicated solely to reducing India's roughly 58,000 annual snakebite deaths. It trains ASHA workers, primary health centre nurses and community health workers on snakebite first aid and treatment protocols, and produces multilingual educational content, including a documentary and a mobile app, to correct dangerous folk remedies. The organisation collaborates with ICMR, the National Centre for Disease Control, the National Health Mission, WHO India, state forest departments and grassroots NGOs across a dozen states.
Snakebite Healing & Education Society (SHE-India) reports the following, on its own site:
- Trained over 10,000 ASHA and primary health centre workers across multiple states in snakebite first aid
- Organisations
- 1
- Based in
- Mumbai
- Founded
- 2014
- Press
- 1
References
- [1] “Priyanka Kadam President and Founder Snakebite Healing and Education Society” — Snakebite Healing & Education Society (SHE-India). Source
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