Help rural women get access to gynecology care

Program Update

J Watmull Global Hospital is a multi speciality hospital with a clinic dedicated to gynaecology and obstetrics. All the outpatients and a number of the admitted patients consulted the gynaecologist Dr Saurbhi Singh for free. Needy women are either referred by the mobile clinics teams (Village Outreach Programme circle/Community Service Project) or identified during through outreach consultation programmes or are direct walk ins. All these women typically hail from financially less privileged families; most of them are from tribal areas or villages. Additionally, women under BPL card holder families are supported.

Story from the field

Sodri Meghwal comes from a family of five members. Her husband works as a daily wager in a hotel earning Rs 6,000 per month. She has two daughters and one son. One daughter and one son are school going while the second daughter is married. She visited the gynaecologist Dr Saurabhi Singh for severe abdominal pain during the menstrual cycle, backache, giddiness, pain in her legs and profuse bleeding every month since one year. She was advised a hysterectomy. Dr Singh operated on her on September 26, 2018. Sodri was very grateful for the treatment and for her recovery.

2127 women saw Dr Saurabhi Singh, the hospital's gynaecologist and obstetrician between September 2017 and February 2018. Dr Singh runs the clinic and a labour room assisted by a nursing attendant and labour staff.

Consultation is a free facility at J Watmull Global Hospital & Research Centre, Mt Abu, where scores of patients hailing from less privileged socio-economic backgrounds come for treatment.

Rinku Devi saw the gynaecologist Dr Saurabhi Singh for an unhealthy cervix with abnormal uterine bleeding. She was advised to undergo a hysterectomy. She desperately needed financial help for the treatment. Her husband is the only working member in the household, who works as a cook's helper earning around Rs 6,000 per month. She and her mother-in-law stay at home. She has two sons and two daughters who all attend school.

Global Hospital offered her a concession of Rs 10,000 towards the cost of treatment. With that help, she was able to meet the balance bill and underwent a hysterectomy operation, Dr Saurabhi Singh operated on her. She stayed in the hospital for four days.

This surgery was made possible by this program.