The Rajasthan Women’s Clinic is an Indian arm of the volunteer organization Hands on Health Australia. The clinic aims to provide traditional medicines and natural therapies to the local women of Rajasthan with the assistance of volunteer practitioners from Australia.
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Developing nations are often deprived of their own traditional remedies. India leads the world in areas such as Homeopathy and yet those in poverty cannot afford to visit a practitioner, despite natural medicines being cheap, available and convenient in many areas. The Hands on Health clinic in Rajasthan, India, offers local women and their families holistic health care plus the opportunity to become trained in basic first aid remedies and grow their own medicines.
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Our aim is to sustain a health education centre and a small hospital with a mobile rural dispensary. Homeopathic first aid and growing herbal medicines is a vital part of our project. The concept of supplying micro-credits for families interested in starting their own business growing medicines or dispensing first aid is also a key component.
International volunteer therapists with experience in naturopathy, homeopathy, herbal medicine, Traditional Chinese Medicine and massage supervise the clinic throughout the year.
Udaipur is located in one of India’s poorest districts with a large tribal population in rural areas. Over forty percent live below the official poverty line. Only twenty-one percent of households have electricity.
Medical services are free when available, however, those below the official poverty line are expected pay only 40 percent less than others. One nurse may work half time in a small medical clinic, which services over 3000 people. A ten-person clinic may service up to 48000 people.
General medicine is largely unregulated and private sector staff are frequently untrained. Forty percent of those who call themselves doctors do not have a medical degree and seventeen percent have not graduated from high school.
Visits to traditional healers (bhopas) account for nineteen percent of health visits in each household. Poorer people see bhopas more often than richer households.
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Donations directed to The Rajasthan Women’s Clinic are invested in micro- enterprises such as Herbal Medicine Planting Kits ($15) and Homeopathic First Aid Kits ($20). Other donations contribute toward buying local natural medicines (zinc, iodine, Vitamin C, etc), medical supplies and teaching aids.
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See website for banking details www.rajasthanwomensclinic.yolasite.com
See also www.handsonhealth.com.au
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