A Brief Profile

23, Zamroodpur Community Centre

Kailash Colony Extension

New Delhi 110 048

India

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About

A non-government, non-profit organisation incorporated in 2010,

under Section 25 of the Indian Companies Act

Vision

To strengthen the health systems in the country by establishing and leveraging a network of healthcare

professionals

Mission

To establish a network of healthcare professionals across the country, which will be a platform for:

• Bridging the needy in the rural areas and volunteer medical experts who would be willing to provide

services for medical outreach camps and capacity building of rural healthcare workers

• Cross-learning

• Building a repository of best health/medical practices

• Enabling the members to function as an interdisciplinary team for working in areas of common and public

interest

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Areas of work

• Strengthening of public health infrastructure (setting up and management of public health

facilities and mobile medical units, installation of water purification units etc.)

• Capacity-building of health professionals (development of training content and conducting

training programmes)

• Technical assistance and support (planning, designing, implementation, monitoring, • Technical assistance and support (planning, designing, implementation, monitoring,

evaluation, and process documentation of public health projects/programmes; and planning,

designing, setting up and management of public health facilities)

• Health promotion initiatives (setting up and management of help-lines, designing of IEC

material, organising health camps etc.)

• Research (policy research, need assessment/diagnostic studies, baseline surveys, impact

assessment/impact evaluation of projects/programmes)

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Projects

Needs assessment study

Objective

• To identify gaps in the existing health delivery mechanisms and propose

effective strategies and interventions for plugging these gaps, including

potential opportunities of collaboration amongst various stakeholders potential opportunities of collaboration amongst various stakeholders

(both public and private)

Key findings

• To improve the overall health scenario in the district, urgent action was

required to be taken at two levels – installation of arsenic removal plants

at the community level and construction of model hospitals at the block

level

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Projects

Medical camps: 8

Patients benefited:

25000

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Projects26 Arsenic Removal Plants

have been set up so far in 3

phases

Each plant has 2000 liters

capacity storage tanks to serve

250-300 families every day.

User Committees, each User Committees, each

comprising of 8-15 local people

as members at each of the

locations ensures the effective

usage and maintenance of the

plant.

National Test House’ - an

enterprise under the Ministry of

Consumer Affairs, Food and

Public Distribution has validated

the effectiveness of these plants

in their ‘Water testing report’.

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Projects

Community Hospitals

• Project with CSR arm of the Financial Technologies

• 2 state-of-the-art community hospitals (30-bedded) being set up in • 2 state-of-the-art community hospitals (30-bedded) being set up in

PPP mode in West Bengal

• Hospitals will be handed over to the State Government for

operationalisation and management

• Will be ready to provide services by end of 2011

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Leadership Team

Dr. Anuradha Khairnar (MBBS, MRCGP, DFSRH) – Director

Dr. Anuradha Khairnar is a member of the Royal College of General Practitioners

(MRCGP) of the United Kingdom (UK) and holds a Diploma of the Faculty of Sexual

and Reproductive Health (DFSRH). She has over 15 years of work experience in

healthcare. She has worked with the National Health Services (NHS) in the UK in

primary care and acute hospital Trusts. She has been one of the managingprimary care and acute hospital Trusts. She has been one of the managing

partners of a group medical practice where she managed large clinical and

administrative teams. She has significant experience in competitive bidding,

strategic planning and implementation of health projects. She has also been

involved in successful mergers and acquisitions of GP practices in the UK. Prior to

her stint abroad, she has worked in India in various national health programmes

and state-sponsored health initiatives. She has worked extensively at the grass

root level. Anuradha’s areas of interest include working towards equitable

healthcare, designing and implementing innovative healthcare models, and skill

development in health.

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Leadership Team

Dr. Vandana Kumar (MBBS, MBA - Healthcare) – Chief Executive Officer

Dr. Vandana Kumar is a medical doctor and healthcare manager with over 12 years

of work experience. She has worked with prestigious private hospitals in Delhi

before her foray into public health. She has expertise and experience in project

management, research and health consulting. She has also worked as a technicalmanagement, research and health consulting. She has also worked as a technical

expert on several health projects. She has worked with corporate groups,

governments, civil society organizations and international agencies on various

health projects. Vandana is also a visiting faculty at the International Institute of

Health Management Research in New Delhi. She is on the advisory board of

Doctors Global Pte. Ltd. – a Health IT company. Her primary areas of interest

include quality in healthcare; use of technology in healthcare; and designing and

implementing innovative health solutions.

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Leadership Team

Dr. Thriveni Arnala (MBBS, MD) – Head, Operations, South India

Dr. Thriveni Arnala has over 15 years of experience in health care. She has worked in

reputed institutions in India and USA. She specializes in Internal medicine and holds a

certificate of the American Board (AB Internal medicine). Her areas of interest include

research and implementation of programmes in Diabetes and other lifestyle diseases.

Dr. Neerja Johri (Ph.D, Economics) – Head, Public Health Research

Dr. Neerja Johri has worked in the areas of social and economic development research,

project development and management for more than 16 years. During this period, she

has supervised, coordinated and delivered over 40 assignments and projects related to

social development sector. She has expertise and experience in pure and applied socio-

economic research and operations including project design, survey/field plan, data

analysis, documentation and report writing with special emphasis on socio-economic

development. In most of her work participatory approach has been significant. She has

worked extensively in health and nutrition.

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Networks

• ISHP has extensive outreach across the country through the existingand upcoming infrastructure, operations and networks of its grouporganisations.

• Indian Society of Agribusiness Professionals (ISAP) is a hugenetwork encompassing over 15000 registered associate members,comprising 1500 experts, 525 partner NGOs, over 824 individualcomprising 1500 experts, 525 partner NGOs, over 824 individualusers and 1050 researchers.

• ISAP has a significant presence at the grass root level.

• 130 people are employed with ISAP at present in 18 locations.

• ISHP will leverage these networks for its work in different states

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ISHP Network: Physical Establishments

1. New Delhi – Registered and Corporate

Office

Kolkata, West Bengal

1. Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh

2. Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh

3. Karnal, Haryana

4. Amritsar, Punjab

5. Solan, Himachal Pradesh5. Solan, Himachal Pradesh

6. Guwahati, Assam

7. Kohima, Nagaland

8. Jammu, J&K

9. Shrinagar, J&K

10. Bundi and Bhilwara, Rajasthan

11. Amravati, Maharashtra

12. Adilabad, Andhra Pradesh

13. Gulberga, Karnataka

14. Bokaro, Jharkhand

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Area of other work

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