Tribhuvandas Foundation

• The villagelevel health workers of TF treated 639,672 patients for 32 common diseases and conditions.
• 700 TB patients were under the care of trained certified Village Health Worker (VHW) DOT providers
• Mother Healthcare Program
• Urine Pregnancy Tests done – 11,895
• New pregnancies registered – 39,934 - 55% registered in first trimester
• No. of visits to regd. pregnant women – 89,403
• Referrals for High-risk pregnancies - 3,992
• Total deliveries registered – 36,294 – 80% deliveries in hospital
• Lactating mothers provided counseling – 27,094
• Family planning services provided in field – 23,094

• At birth Male:Female ratio noted in this area – 54:46
• Low Birth Weight less than 2.5 kg babies noted – 11%
• Colostrum Feeding in 3 hours of birth – 74%
• Newborn put on KMC - 524
• Bath to newborn after 7 days – 15%
• Neo natal Mortality Rate (NMR) – 25
• Gr III–IV undernourished children < 1 yr – 4%
• Participation of TF in Mamta Divas (MCH-vaccination sessions in RCH) – 10,001 events Average ANC/session - 7, Children/session - 13

• Households visited for survey – 1,59,511
• Persons contacted – 7,32,365
• Population found addicted – 40%
• Persons motivated for de-addiction – 3,379
• “High risk for cancer” persons referred to hospital – 4,622
• Confirmed new cancer patients - 468
• Cancer patients followed in field – 2,938
• Patients completed treatment - 77
• Cancer Awareness Meetings held – 16,176
• Cancer diagnosis camps held 5 - 738 patients attended

• Viewers of health exhibition in 65 villages– 8,804
• Anti-rabies vaccine doses provided – 2,998
• Anti-Hepatitis B Vaccine doses – 67,334
• Family Planning operations – 670, IUDs – 3
• 1,664 employees of 422 village milk cooperative societies of AMUL provided health check up services.

416 Annual General Body Meetings of village milk cooperatives attended

• Disposable Delivery Kit (DDK)Unit
• DDKs manufactured – 23,892
• DDKs distributed – 22,160

From March 2009, TF has tied up with Sankara Eyecare Institute's Anand Hospital for eyecare in 7 blocks - to eradicate preventable blindness . From March 9 to mid-Sept 09, the Sankara-TF joint efforts have reached around 1100 people - who have been provided COMPLETELY FREE eye surgeries, mostly for senile cataract. Training inputs have been provided to all village health workers of TF.

TF has also been enlisted to provide training to members of Village Health and Sanitation Committees of Village Gram Panchayats of all the villages of Umreth, Anklav and Anand talukas of Anand District and Balasinor and Virpur talukas of Kheda District during the financial year 08-09. The Gujarat state government has provided grants for this project of around Rs.1100,000 (eleven lakhs or one million one hundred thousand rupees).

Apart from community health, TF also has programs for children, (Balwadi program) and for livelihood enhancement of women (handicrafts). TF also has organised anti tobacco campaigns in its program villages.

The Chairperson of the National Dairy Development Board, Dr.(Ms) Amrita Patel assessed the organisation thus in an international workshop " Tribhuvandas Foundation, which is Asia’s largest NGO, works in over 600 villages in the State in the field of maternal and infant care. What is unique about the programme of the Foundation is that it rides on the back of milk. It is the village milk co-operative that appoints a village health worker and pays an honorarium to the village health worker to undertake the work. So it is milk paying for health."[2]