Our work
For 40 years, IRHS has worked to demonstrate that the complex problems of rural healthcare in India can be overcome through intelligent solutions focused at the grassroots.
Through action based research, IRHS designs innovative methods to support access to healthcare. IRHS collects data and works with local and state government and NGOs to create methods that are effective in low resource, rural areas.
The components of the IRHS healthcare system are:
- Village clinics in a remote rural area
- Screen women for cervical cancer and treatment for precancerous lesions
- Providing awareness about breast cancer
- Travellers' Aid for the Sick - an office in the Hyderabad central bus station supporting patients to access specialised care
- Patient counsellors located in both the bus station office and in specialist public and private hospitals
- Shelter and healthcare to homeless widows in progress
- Health education for children in local schools
IRHS uses an integrated strategy to provide rural people the healthcare services they require to make a full recovery where possible.