NUVEN Foundation

HealBox

From scraped knees and elbows, to tummy aches and headaches, and more serious bleeding injuries, children at school have multiple medical issues that need to be attended immediately. A First-Aid-Kit is the first line of treatment for injuries and illnesses including those that do not require a trip to the hospital or significant ones, which do, where administering first aid limits the severity of damage.

India has 12 million schools, 87% located in villages, with less than 5% of them have access to a first aid kits in the school. Of the 100,000 schools in the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, less than half of them have access to first aid kits and meagre financial resources are the primary reason for this.

6 lakhs schools do not have First-Aid-Kits in India

Nuven Foundation has been running a project called HealBox that provides first-aid kits to govt schools in the Telugu states which lack even basic first-aid facilities that can take care of injuries and minor ailments of children. The first-aid kits called HealBoxes contain medicines, consumables that can suffice the needs of an average sized school for one year. The HealBoxes are sponsored by individuals and organizations for their chosen area or village. In 2015, around 2000 HealBoxes have been distrubuted to schools across Andhra and Telangana with the support of 150 donors.

Rural Health Camps

In areas where proper medical facilities are hard to come by and nearest doctor is around 50 km away, a medical camp can provide yeoman service by screening the population for ailments and provide counseling and medication for minor illnesses. A typical medical camp can provide services like basic medical screening, doctor consultation, glucose / sugar tests, basic lab tests, specialist consultation and even dispense basic medicines.

Our professional team has experience of organizing hundreds of medical camps in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Karnataka in rural and semi-urban areas. Our team consists of doctors, paramedics and specialists. We have organized camps in mining communities and agriculture based communities in far flung areas of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.

Schools Empowerment Program

Nuven Foundation works with govt schools to support them with infrastructure support in constructing classrooms, computer labs, bathrooms for girls etc.

Primary education and childcare has become an increasingly important area of social policy, largely because of its perceived potential to improve developmental and educational outcomes, tackle disadvantage, and increase maternal employment and as a result it has become an important area of focus for NUVEN Foundation.

Our priorities are :

Initiatives aimed at improving the quality of teaching in primary schools, and those that develop innovative methods of teaching and learning and

Primary Healthcare

Nuven Foundation works with govt schools to support them with infrastructure support in constructing classrooms, computer labs, bathrooms for girls etc.
An inclusive learning environment in schools and elsewhere so that the most marginalised children can reap the benefits of quality education.

Roughly 70% of India’s population of 1.2 billion lives in villages and semi-urban areas where access to quality healthcare is severely restricted.

Poor availability: Doctor presence in rural India is 1/7th the doctor to patient ratio in urban areas, despite having 4 times the population.
An absence study by Harvard published 2011 *study 2003
Andhra Pradesh 34.2 overall 40.9 doctors 28.0 nurses 27.8 pharmacist 40.4 others 36.5% of visits where no doctor was available

Limited accessibility: 31% of the population travels over 30 kms to avail healthcare. 66% of patients do not have the access to critical medicines.

Ill-timed interventions: Roughly half of all sicknesses in India remain untreated due to lack of medical facilities with 70% basic illnesses requiring simple interventions.

Low Physician Density – 1.4/1000: Assuming that 1% of the population is sick at any given time, and each tehsil / mandal in India has a population of 0.3 mn, it translates to about 3000 sick patients per day per tehsil / mandal. Of the 0.612 million registered doctors in India, 74% reside in urban areas which constitutes 26% of the population. The rural sector with 72% of the total population of India has access to only 26% of the doctors. The gap in supply of healthcare professionals for rural and semi-urban areas is filled by unqualified doctors and over-burdened doctors who do not have the time nor infrastructure to deal with such volumes.

Nuven Foundation has been working to increase accessibility and affordability of healthcare in rural India with the support of several organizations and groups of individuals through its partners Asvas Healthcare and Kria Health who have the experience and technical competence of establishing and managing healthcare units and projects across Andhra, Telangana and Karnataka.

Nuven is currently working on an ambitious plan of plugging the gaps in the public health infrastructure in the Telugu states by establishing health centers in places where there are no state run health centers or by complementing existing health infrastructure.

The health center network being planned by Kria is to provide high quality healthcare at low cost through 700 health centers in Andhra Pradesh and 600 centers in Telangana.

The typical model will operate on a hub and spoke model where the hub is located at the mandal level and spokes being located in the surrounding 10-15 villages. The backbone of this network would be a scalable technology platform that includes electronic medical records and tele medicine.

If you would like to sponsor a cluster of health centers, please read further here.