Mobile Medical Units
Sri Sannidhi — “Love on Wheels”. Fabricated mobile clinics carrying completely free preventive and primary healthcare to the doorstep of remote villages.
Sri Sannidhi
Love on Wheels
Launched in 2015, our mobile medical units address non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and cancers early, before they become a crisis for families who have little access to diagnosis.
Sri Sannidhi is a fleet of fabricated mobile clinics that travels directly into rural and semi-urban communities, screening for non-communicable diseases and cancers that so often go undetected until it is too late. Every consultation, screening and medicine dispensed is completely free of cost.
What began as a West Bengal initiative — covering 20 blocks, 100 cluster villages and a population of over 500,000 — has since expanded to Jharkhand in 2019 and Assam in early 2020, carrying the same model of doorstep healthcare to new states.
Where we work
West Bengal
20 blocks, 100 cluster villages, 500,000+ population
Jharkhand
Expanded in 2019
Assam
Expanded in early 2020
61,379
Consultations in West Bengal phase
57,218
Consultations (2018–2020)
12,786
Of which, children
480
Cataract surgeries enabled
Preventive Screening
NCD screening on every visit
Each mobile camp screens for the non-communicable diseases that most affect rural communities.
Cardiovascular
Hypertension
Diabetes
Ophthalmology
Dentistry
Cancer Screening
Catching cancer early, for rural women and men
Oral Cancer
Extraoral and intraoral examination for lesions, ulcers and abnormalities
7,500
Persons screened
74
Suspected lesions
2
Confirmed positive
Breast Cancer
Clinical examination for lumps, thickening, swelling, skin changes and nipple discharge
920
Women screened
25
Suspected lesions
Cervical Cancer
VIA (Visual Inspection with Acetic Acid) and VILI (Visual Inspection using Lugol's Iodine) methods
500
Women screened
80
Suspected lesions
Vision Care Partnership
Restoring sight, in partnership
Working alongside Lions Netra Niketan, Kolkata, our mobile medical units have helped enable 480 cataract surgeries for villagers who would otherwise have no access to eye care — and no way to afford it.
Each mobile unit also links into our telemedicine network, connecting patients seen on the road to specialists in our referral hospitals for further diagnosis and treatment.