Welcome to Healing-fields

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Only 52.7% women in India have safe deliveries. One in every 15 children in India die before they reach their fifth birthday. There are 52 million undernourished children in India. Almost 80% of women in India do not use sanitary napkins, mainly due to non-availability, lack of awareness and poverty. 70% of common illnesses are preventable. In India, only about 10.5% of people have access to community toilets, while approximately 89.5% have to defecate in the open According to the World Health Organization, 80% of India’s diarrheal diseases is the result of drinking water contamination by poor sanitation. 47% of the rural population and 31% of the urban population has to incur debts or sell- off assets during hospitalization 700,000 Indians die each year from diarrhoea

Healing Fields Foundation

Founded in 2002, Healing Fields is recognized as a pioneer in the areas of health financing and community health education. Healing Fields is an Ashoka Fellow led organization in recognition of the innovative work in Health financing. It has created benchmarks and evaluation measures for improving accessibility and affordability of health care services to the poor that are in use in many parts of India. Healing Fields focuses its activities on the improvement of health care..More..

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Who we are

To make quality healthcare affordable and accessible to all people in India, specially the poor, underprivileged and the marginalized. Improving access to basic healthcare services..

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Our Methodology

Our work is guided by a research methodology that enables comprehensive analysis of the factors that affect the health and finance of poor people in India..

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Our Work

Healing Fields has been doing pioneering work in the areas of health education and health financing over the last decade. Our major programs are in the areas of:

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