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Providing Health Care to the Poor of India

In the CRF Good Samaritan Clinic in the village of Ravalpally, Mrs. Pushpa Wesley, RN, and an assistant nurse care for poor patients. Two days each week two doctors attend the clinic. Another clinic is in Kosgi Village near Tandur, and serves 12,000 people in 23 small villages.

The lady on the left could not walk when she came to the clinic. After treatment she is walking with help from Mrs. Pushpa Wesley, RN, and a walker.

Right: Dr. S.K. Patil treats a 4-month-old in serious condition. $750 a month is needed to fund the clinics. . . a small investment to save lives and relieve suffering for so many!

More than two million children die in India every year from preventable infections. Despite healthcare improvements over the last thirty years, lives continue to be lost to early childhood diseases, inadequate newborn care and childbirth-related causes. Infant mortality in India is as high as 63 deaths per 1,000 live births. Most infant deaths occur in the first month of life, up to 47 per cent in the first week. Maternal deaths are also high because few women have access to skilled birth attendants and fewer still to quality emergency obstetric care. In addition, only 15 per cent of mothers receive complete prenatal care and only 58 per cent receive iron or folate tablets or syrup. Children in India continue to lose their lives to vaccine-preventable diseases such as measles, which remains the biggest killer. Tetanus in newborns remains a problem.

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