In the next one years, SATHI will focus on strengthening its urban health interventions in Maharashtra by activating and strengthening Mahila Arogya Samitis, deepening its community health work in Bihar by training community-level women health activists in three districts, amplifying discourse on patients’ rights and the private health sector, and publishing innovative health audio and video messages through SATHI’s health communication and narrative lab.
Objectives
The primary objective is to continue and expand efforts in existing low-income urban settlements (vastis) while engaging local residents to improve their access to available health services. A key part of this process will involve gathering detailed information about the health services and facilities provided by the Municipal Corporation in these areas to enhance their utilisation.
The proposed approach will focus on awareness-raising, community mobilisation, increased service utilisation, dialogue, and improved access to health services in the selected low-income areas of Pune, Solapur, and Nashik. This will necessitate collaboration with local communities as well as municipal health services. The project will include the following components:
This project empowers pregnant and lactating women and their 0 to 3 years children by improving awareness about public health and nutrition services, and increasing access to these services through local interventions. To enable this, beneficiaries, community level stakeholders orientation workshop was conducted with the involvement in the project including frontline service providers ANM, Anganwadi, and ASHA workers, in the selected slum areas.
Objectives
The COVID pandemic underlined the importance of well-functioning public health services. Although public health services are chronically underfunded and understaffed, poor and marginalised people depend critically on them. In the post-pandemic recovery period, nationally and globally, there is a renewed call with urgency to invest and improve public services without further delay. On this background, SATHI’s perspective to improve public health services by enabling local communities, particularly marginalised sections, to create inclusive mechanisms for dialogue between communities and public health functionaries while deepening the accountability culture is valuable. So, SATHI is activating institutionally mandated participatory forums to enable communities to access improved health services.
Objectives
Strengthening access to maternal and child health nutrition services in the tribal area of four districts of Maharashtra by empowering local community, thereby improving ANC, PNC care and reducing malnutrition.
Objectives
Dhadgaon block in Nandurbar, Maharashtra, faces severe gaps in maternal and child health, especially in tribal areas where access to quality care and nutrition remains despite government efforts. High rates of anaemia among women, low antenatal care coverage, and poor child nutrition highlight both systemic and socio-cultural challenges. This project aims to strengthen community-based action by engaging women, families, local leaders, and frontline workers to enhance awareness, participation, and access to essential maternal and child health and nutrition services in Dhadgaon tribal communities.
Broad Objectives
Across Maharashtra and India, patients seeking care in private hospitals—either directly or through government-funded schemes for free or subsidised treatment—face a wide range of literacy violations. The most common and serious of these include overcharging which is often beyond declared rates or original estimates; lack of transparency in rates and bills, with no public display of rates and patients receiving opaque or non-itemised invoices; and detention of deceased patients’ bodies as leverage for payment of inflated bills—an illegal but prevalent practice amounting to extortion. Community awareness, combined with initiatives by grassroots actors—is one of the most effective tools to counter these practices. This requires expanding our network of active civil society organisations in Maharashtra, and sensitising existing networks in some other states, thus promoting visibility of key mentioned issues at both state and national levels.
Activities