ASHWINI
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Mission Statement
Mission We hereby assure quality healthcare to patients through reliable healthcare services, available medicines and maintainable equipment. We shall ensure efficiency of operations and effectiveness of treatment through our competent human resources. We shall review this policy for continuing suitability, adequacy and effectiveness. We shall achieve this through the quality objectives and targets set for various departments Vision The primary objective of ASHWINI has been to establish a health system that is “accessible, acceptable, effective and sustainable”. It should be owned and managed by the people themselves; and it should be a system Capable of responding to the growing health needs of the adivasis, and their changing social conditions.
About This Cause
About Association for Health Welfare in The Nilgiris ASHWINI is a not for profit organization working since the last 3 decades with the vision of establishing a healthcare system that is accessible, acceptable, effective and sustainable among the Adivasi communities of Gudalur and Pandalur taluks in The Nilgiris district of Tamil Nadu. ASHWINI as an institution is owned and managed by the adivasis themselves (through the Adivasi people’s organization called Adivasi Munnetra Sangam AMS) and places a strong emphasis on involving the Adivasi community and training their youth to deliver and strengthen the services. We believe that such an ownership of social institutions is a powerful tool in bringing about and sustaining changes in social equations. We believe that programs and services that emphasize local resources and capabilities, help shift the power of change and development, closer to the people themselves. About the adivasi communities we work with The Adivasis of Gudalur and Pandalur taluks belong to four different tribes- Paniya, Katunayakan, Betakurumba and Mulakurumba -- and these groups identified as Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTG) by the Government of India. Like other indigenous tribal populations, they remain socially and economically marginalized. While they continue to retain their Adivasi identities, beliefs, and practices, urbanization, forced migration and loss of access to the forests on which they were primarily dependent for food and livelihood, has led to loss of local economy and their traditional ways of living self-sustainably. About 20000 of them now live in 320 remote tribal hamlets, with most of the hamlets being in the interiors of the Mudumalai Forest Reserve. Most of them are currently employed as daily wage manual labourers, working in plantations; fall below the poverty line; and have low literacy levels. The programs of ASHWINI Over the last 34 years, ASHWINI has established a unique health care system, addressing the needs of Adivasi communities. We have 3 programs that take a combined approach of community development programs as well as institutional programs. 1) Primary healthcare is delivered through the Community Health Program led by 16 trained health workers (called Health Animators), who are adivasis themselves, across 8 area centres covering all 320 tribal hamlets. They are parallelly supported by over 200 health volunteers (who are also adivasis themselves) at the village level. 2) This Community Health programme is backed up by the secondary care institutional facility, the 50 bedded Gudalur Adivasi Hospital (GAH). 3) Parallelly, ASHWINI also focuses on education and capacity building through the ASHWINI Nursing Medical School (ANM) where vocational training for the next generation of health workers is provided. The village level health volunteers, the Health Animators and the Hospital form the three tier system through which ASHWINI strives to make healthcare accessible, effective and affordable for all.