For improving health in a community, its populace must often alter aspects of the physical, and social in order to eliminate factors contributing to health problems or introduce elements promoting better health. Adolescent girls outside Indian cities are especially vulnerable as teenage marriages and pregnancies are very high in remote areas. Thus, new mothers living in inaccessible areas have a much greater chance of dying during childbirth. THF supports grassroots NGOs to improve quality and coverage of high impact maternal health services. The Foundation addresses the needs of adolescent mothers who are more at risk of complications during pregnancy and post-delivery period. We are a lifeline for the working poor who are making a sincere effort to help themselves and their families but cannot afford medical care. Without our MMUs, many patients would forgo or delay care until faced with a medical emergency. These fully-equipped Medical Units are staffed with a doctor, pharmacist, nurse, community health worker and driver so that the immediate health care needs of beneficiaries can be assessed, treated and proper referrals are made where necessary. Gynecology services are provided on a consultation basis. The foundation is currently running more than 45 Mobile Medical Units and reaches out to approx one million patients in a year. The foundation, through its network of medical mobile units, reached out to the most underdeveloped and inaccessible areas to provide quality primary healthcare including diagnosis, referrals and awareness on health issues in approx. 700 villages and slums of India. The medical services are aimed at improving the health status of infants, children and mothers during their pregnancy. These MMUs provide free consultation and medicines and visit the villages with a fixed frequency. The program focuses on early detection and prevention of all pathological disorders related to pregnancy, labor and health of the neonate. Early diagnosis has been instrumental in preventing maternal ill-health, injury, maternal mortality, fetal death, infant mortality and morbidity. These lifesavers also cover basic diagnostics which helps in early identification of critical illnesses and are also referred to tertiary care.

The Hans Foundation Hospitals are based in the hilly state of Uttarakhand. The hospitals deliver compassionate affordable quality health care for everyone. The foundation has also set up a 150-bedded general hospital in Satpuli, Uttarakhand (supported by RIST), a hilly area where no such government facility is available. This multispecialty hospital provides affordable healthcare to the rural populace with emergency/trauma and all major specialities including surgery, orthopaedics, paediatrics, ENT, dermatology, ophthalmology, dental and radiology. The hospital has benefitted approximately 1,20, 000 patients treated and 5000 surgeries performed, of which 70 per cent of consultations and 80 per cent of the surgeries have been free of cost. The Hans Foundation eye care hospital at Haridwar works on a hub and spoke model hub being a tertiary eye care hospital and the spokes being the secondary hospitals and vision centres planned at selected places in the state. Outreach Eye camps are the mainstay of community eye care services, intended to reach and serve the underprivileged and so it has been the case with The Hans Foundation Eye Care also. In addition to the patients treated at the hospital at Haridwar, over a period of two years from the commencement of operations, The Hans Foundation Eye Care has held 249 outreach eye camps, screening 52,221 patients in the districts of Haridwar, Pauri, Tehri and adjacent areas. The eye care facility at Haridwar offers both paid as well as charity facilities. The charges for the paid facilities too are significantly lower than the prevailing charges in the other eye care facilities in the general area of Haridwar.