VISION:

ESAF HEALTH CARE seeks to build a just, fair and healthy society by making world-class HEALTH CARE services available, accessible and affordable to the rural and semi-urban poor.

MISSION:

ESAF HEALTH CARE delivers excellent HEALTH CARE services to the poor through health education, counseling, health insurance and a chain of hospitals, clinics, pharmacies, diagnostic labs, Ayurvedic treatment centers, and training centers in locations with least HEALTH CARE facilities.

Our Projects in HEALTH CARE:

Santhwana Project:
A project to love people living with HIV/AIDS

• Home-based care and counseling.
• Medical support.
• Educational support for Children.
• Get-together for families.
• Income-generation projects.

ESAF Hospital and Research Centre, Thachampara, Palakkad:

Deenabandhu is a 42 years old, 100-bedded hospital which is the only hospital with like facilities betweem Palakkad and Perinthalmanna(a stretch of 70 km).
Specialty Departments:

• General Medicine-General Surgery.
• Orthopedics.
• Obstetrics &Gynecology.
• Pediatrics-Pediatric Surgery-dermatology.
• Dentistry.
• Physiotherapy.
• Ayurvedic Centre.

X-Ray Service, ECG, Automated Laboratory,24 hours Ambulance services.
Community Health, Health Insurance plan.
School of Nursing-KNC and INC approved -GNM course

This hospital, which has been a blessing to thousands of people in and around Thachampara including the tribal communities of Attappadi, was on the verge of closure due to poor management. ESAF HEALTH CARE took over this hospital in April 2007 with the intention of developing it into a multi-specialty rural hospital.

Unity Hospital, Kozhinjampara, Palakkad:

Unit hospital is a 50-bedded hospital at Kozhinjampara (a small town 35km. south-east of Palakkad on the Palakkad-Pollachi road) has all the basic facilities. A population of more than one lakh living in 4 panchayaths, depend on this hospital for their medical needs. ESAF HEALTH CARE has taken over this hospital in April 2008 with a plan to develop it into a multi-specialty rural hospital.

Primery HEALTH CARE Centers:

Currently, ESAF HEALTH CARE manages three Primary HEALTH CARE Centers where poor patents get special discounts in consultation, lab fee and medicines. Each centre has a general clinic, specialty clinic, diagnostic lab and pharmacy.
ESAF Health Care plans to open more primary health Centers to provide better medical facilities to rural poor.

Move to North India:

ESAF HEALTH CARE is in discussions with the Health Ministry of Jarkhand regarding the take over of a newly built hospital building at Kathikund in Dumka district of Jarkhand. Other than the Government hospital, there is no other hospital in Dumka district which has a population of 11, 06,521.