MLD Community Care

Our direct aim is to Financially support Dr. M L Dhawale Trust (MLDT) in Mumbai. Through MLDT, we wish to accomplish the following:
1. Reduce Anaemia of at least 1000 adolescent girls
2. Ensure safe pregnancy and deliveries to 700 women
3. Ensure that average weight at birth stays above 2.6 kilos
4. Prevent malnutrition among 0 to 2 years by proper breastfeeding and postnatal care
5. Screen 2 to 6 year old children for malnutrition and treat if necessary
6. Conduct health check up camps and further investigation & treatment whenever necessary
7. Screen and treat senior citizens for Hypertension, Diabetes, Ophthalmic disorders
8. Provide Dialysis, Urology, Bone replacement surgeries at charitable rates

In short provide primary and secondary care to the poor and marginalised population who cannot afford treatment, thereby ensuring better health and dignity in their lives.

The simple strategy is to reach where other healthcare services have not reached. Thereafter bring in awareness through informal conversations to inculcate health seeking behaviour and to inform them that services are available free or at low rates.
Some of the strategic steps to be taken to ensure better health for the community are:
1. Train some of the local women in each village to be the frontline workers
2. Conduct regular meetings to understand their issues and impart basic knowledge in simple language to help them understand the importance of good health
3. Understand their cultural facets which may be impediments in health seeking behaviour. Deal with those carefully.
4. Make the treatment accessible and affordable to them
5. Spread awareness of our services
6. Work on aspects other than health i.e. education, livelihood, awareness of their entitlements etc. All these have a direct effect on health too.

In short, be one with the community and eradicate fear from their minds about doctors & hospitals. Work with the decision makers in the community and influence them to work with others.

Dr. M L Dhawale Memorial Trust has been providing these services since 1987. Starting with one clinic in the suburbs of Mumbai, the Trust’s footprint has now grown to 3 hospitals and two dozen clinics. The Trust has a team of 15 very senior doctors each with 30 years of experience and more than 20 doctors with 5-10 years of experience. We have a large team of para-medical staff and social workers. The Trust’s hospital maintains high quality standards and has been awarded the quality certification by the highest certifying body in India.

Having worked with the communities for over 25 years, we understand their pulse and they have come to trust us wholeheartedly. We witnessed that during Covid. While most other communities were reluctant to follow the protocols or get vaccinated we achieved near 100% vaccination in our region.

So far we have:
1. Treated more than 50 million people either free or at charitable rates.
2. Conducted more than 50,000 dialysis cycles, saving many lives
3. Reduced home deliveries from 90% to less than 2%
4. 100% of women undergo antenatal care
5. Increased weight at birth from under 2 kilos to 2.8 kilos
6. Treated anaemia of more than 2000 girls
7. Screened more than 5000 young boys and girls for malnutrition and treated all those who were found malnourished as per the WHO guidelines.
8. Treated more than 1000 neonates giving them the joy of life
9. Operate one of its only kind Senior Citizen centre esp. for senior citizens with psychiatric disorders.

Going forward, we will continue with all these services as well as add some new such as:
1. Counsel and perform Family planning surgeries
2. Set up a large and better facility for senior citizen care
3. Continuously monitor health of the community to keep a tab of any infections or spread of any epidemic
4. Conduct research on effect of homoeopathy on various illnesses and spread its awareness
5. Expand in other debilitating diseases and provide treatment