Medical Relief

Description

Medical

We provide regular medical aid to our children – a vital offering due to lack of facilities in the slums where they live - via a full-time nurse. She is responsible for general check ups, updating medical records from doctor’s visits, going with families to hospitals to help communicate with the doctor and ensure treatment protocols are followed. We are also able to offer our children vaccinations, provided by the government and administered at Harmony House.

We also intervene wherever possible when we identify the all too familiar red flags of an under-educated family being exploited by unethical practices and bullied into expensive treatments of unnecessarily lengthy hospital stays. Thanks to our team of volunteer doctors, we are able to provide families in need with reliable advice. In many cases, where financial assistance is required, we also raise as much by way of funds that we can.

Some Cases

Ajooba

Ajooba was born with a hole in her heart, but due to a communication gap between doctors and her parents, surgery kept getting delayed. We were able to get the surgery preponed at AIIMS, and today she is strong and healthy.

Lalo Devi

During the lockdown, one of our children’s mothers was diagnosed with a painful hernia. However, government hospitals were not taking on non-COVID-19 cases and her only option for relief was to go to a private clinic. As can be expected, private clinics can be notoriously expensive and Lalo’s family was unable to even pay for the transport to a consultation. Harmony House helped. Then, the family was quoted an unfeasibly high number for treatments, without being told about their importance or in fact, what was to be expected from them. Once again, we intervened with the help of a volunteer doctor, who arranged for Lalo to be treated at a reputed nursing home, with all costs being borne by our sponsors.

Anu

Just before the lockdown in 2020, one of our children was diagnosed with epilepsy and requires regular medication. Throughout the lockdown, we helped provide her with her medicine, and stay in constant communication with her doctors so as to ensure her positive progress.

Mohan

Early in 2021, Mohan was diagnosed with tuberculosis and HIV, two diseases that are all too common in the slums of India. He is currently undergoing treatment at a government hospital and we are closely monitoring his progress, while providing him with all the nutritional support and other aid he has needed so far.

Regular Awareness Sessions & Checkups

Burn Victims

Eye camps

Dental camps

Government-administered vaccinations

Regular health check ups

First Aid training

Medical sessions with mums and babies by Dubai college

Breast Cancer Awareness by Miss Simmi Ahuja.

How you can help

Needlist link Medical Supplies - Harmony House India

SPONSOR A DOCTOR
Rs. 45,000 per month (USD 653/ GBP 523/ AED 2398)

With over 500 children to care for, we are looking to have an in-house doctor for a few hours a day in order to ensure that all children can be taken care of and monitored.
Includes: doctor visits of two hours a day x three times a week and basic medicines