Majority of Indians do not get even basic healthcare because of deep-rooted inequality and discrimination
Reset the system now!
Majority of Indians do not get even basic healthcare because of deep-rooted inequality and discrimination
How your donation to Oxfam India will help:
- We train Community Based Organisations (CBOs) on their health rights and entitlements.
- We work with the youth and women’s groups to help improve nutrition, maternal health and immunization among community members.
- We monitor the implementation of government health schemes on the ground and have been able to pressure on authorities to improve public healthcare services.
- We conduct extensive research and advocate for policies which will make our healthcare system more accessible for everyone.
Why should we reset our healthcare system?
Profit-Making During the Pandemic
A stranded migrant worker was in dire need of an anti-epilepsy drug for his child. The marketing consultant who was helping him, found that the drug was in short supply. The pharmacies which had the drug were selling it at a high price: One strip of 10 tablets that normally costs around INR 450 was selling at INR 700 by February 2020, and at INR 3,500 by April 2020.
Twenty-one year old Dhiraj spends sleepless nights trying to figure out how he can pay back a loan of INR 1.1 lakh with interest to his family and a money lender. He had taken the loan for his mother, Bhuri Devi’s stomach ulcer operation that cost him INR 1.50 lakh at a private hospital in Kanpur in March earlier this year. The hospital in which Bhuri Devi was admitted displayed its Ayushman Bharat empanelment on a board and Dhiraj was a golden card holder.
The Scheme provides health coverage of INR 5 lakh to golden card holders in an empanelled private hospital. It was only after admission that the hospital denied having any coverage under the Scheme. Within 10 days, they racked up a bill of INR 1.50 lakh.
Source: Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
Oxfam India ensures access to healthcare
Kajal Kumari lives with her husband and her in-laws in Bihar. Aakash is a daily wage labourer and without a regular source of income, the financial burden increased when Kajal became pregnant. Not only was she anaemic, she also developed complications. She started consulting a private doctor because his clinic was well equipped. But private consultations were expensive and she started missing her regular checkups.
We engaged with the Community Based Organization (CBO) to raised awareness about their health rights and entitlements. Members of the CBO then put pressure on the public hospital in their vicinity to demand improved healthcare services and their health rights. Soon results began to show and the hospital now has well trained staff and provided free anemia medicines.
The CBO reached out to Kajal and convinced her to visit the government hospital. Eventually, Kajal received quality healthcare without added expense and delivered a healthy baby at the same public hospital.
Your donation for healthcare will help us address the inequality in our existing healthcare system and make long-term changes.
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In 2019-20 Oxfam India reached out to 32.31 lakh people
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