• The project
  • 1. History
  • 2. Goals
  • 3. The problem
  • 4. Consequences
  • 5. Health education program
  • 6. Access to health care
  • 7. What is needed?
  • 8. The mobile clinic
  • 9. Health and education program
  • 10. Summary
• Who are we?
  • 1. Board The Netherlands
  • 2. Board India
  • 3. The founders
• Future
  • 1. Outpatient's clinic
  • 2. Hospital
• Agenda
  • 1. 2010
  • 2. 2009
  • 3. 2008
• Pictures
  • 1. Gallery 1
  • 2. Gallery 2
  • 3. Gallery 3
  • 4. Gallery 4
  • 5. Gallery 5
  • 6. Gallery 6
  • 7. Gallery 7
  • 8. Gallery 8
• News
  • 1. News letters
  • 2. 100,000th patient
  • 3. Video: The mobile clinic
  • 4. The mobile clinic
• Sponsoring
  • 1. Become a sponsor
  • 2. Ways you can help
  • 3. Your support is needed!
• Annual report
  • 1. Request annual report
• Contact information
  • 1. Contact information The Netherlands
  • 2. Contact information abroad

3. The Problem

The medical team offers free medical care to 43.000 people living in a large number of remote villages in the vicinity of the city of Tiruvannamalai, 220 kilometers to the South-West of Chennai.

These people live in extreme poverty and have next to no medical care available. They suffer and even die just because they have no access to medical care and information that can prevent simple medical ailments. They are also sometimes visited by an unqualified “doctor” who just causes more problems.

Dysentery, diphteria, malaria, AIDS, malnutrition, diabetes, hypertension, gout, fever, coughing, colds and infected wounds are the most common medical problems that the villagers in this rural area deal with.

People often can’t go into the city for medical care, because they are day labourers and a day without work means a day without income.

They are often also unable to pay for transportation into the city and medication.