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India · April 2022Healing on Wheels
Villages hours away from the nearest clinic had no doctor and almost no medicine — until a clinic on wheels began its monthly circuit.
The challenge
A day's journey for a doctor
Eighteen villages shared zero physicians. The nearest hospital was a full day's travel away, so treatable infections turned critical, mothers delivered without care, and fewer than a third of children were vaccinated.
Our support
One van, a full medical team
We funded a mobile clinic van and a rotating nurse team that visited 18 villages in its first six months — a doctor, two nurses, vaccines, diagnostics, and prenatal kits on a fixed monthly route, with village health workers covering the weeks between.
The difference made
4,000 patients — and counting
More than 4,000 patients were treated, and every child under five on the route received routine vaccines. Full immunization coverage rose from 31% to 89%, and not a single maternal death was recorded on the circuit in year one.
"The van comes every month like clockwork. My twins were vaccinated at our own doorstep — I never imagined that."
Meera S.Patient, Partner Village