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Sandeep Ahuja is the founder of Operation ASHA[1], an Indian non-profit working on healthcare.
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:
- 200,030 patients treated for drug-sensitive TB, plus 908 MDR-TB patients
- Treatment success rate of over 85% for drug-sensitive TB
- Nearly 8.0 million families sensitised and screened for TB symptoms
- Over 5,200 village volunteers trained on TB detection and treatment
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References
- [1] “Sandeep is a management and strategy expert. He founded Operation ASHA and has led it since the beginning.” — Operation ASHA. Source
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