Healthcare Access Without Barriers
Good health is the foundation on which individuals and communities thrive. Through free camps, medical assistance and preventive awareness, we work to make quality care reachable for those who would otherwise go without it.
Free Eye Check-up Camps
Vision screening, spectacles and referral for cataract surgery for elders in underserved districts.
Medical Assistance
Support for consultations, essential medicines and treatment during critical illness.
Health Awareness Drives
Community sessions on hygiene, nutrition, diabetes and preventive care.
Ayurveda & Naturopathy
Natural, non-invasive therapies offered to elders and community members.
Mental Health Support
Counselling and awareness work to reduce stigma and isolation.
Elder Care
Regular health monitoring for residents of our Old Age Home.
Comprehensive Care
We believe that everyone deserves access to quality healthcare, regardless of their circumstances. Through our comprehensive care programs, we provide a range of essential services, including medical checkups, screenings, treatments, and preventive care measures. From routine health assessments to specialized interventions, our goal is to ensure that individuals receive the care they need to live healthy, fulfilling lives.
COVID-19 Relief Efforts
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought unprecedented challenges to communities worldwide. In response, Hritan Foundation has launched targeted relief efforts to support those affected by the virus. From distributing essential supplies and medical equipment to facilitating vaccination drives and providing financial assistance to frontline workers, we are dedicated to mitigating the impact of the pandemic and safeguarding the health of our communities.
Promoting Preventive Health
Prevention is key to maintaining good health and avoiding the onset of illness. Through educational campaigns, workshops, and outreach programs, we empower individuals with knowledge and resources to adopt healthy lifestyle habits, practice disease prevention measures, and prioritize their well-being. By promoting preventive health behaviors, we aim to reduce the burden of illness and promote long-term health outcomes for all.
Mental Health Support
Mental health is an integral component of overall well-being, yet it is often overlooked or stigmatized. At Hritan Foundation, we are committed to promoting mental health awareness and providing support for those struggling with mental illness. Through counseling services, support groups, and community outreach initiatives, we strive to break down barriers to mental health care and ensure that everyone has access to the resources they need to thrive emotionally and psychologically.
What Actually Happens at a Free Camp
A medical camp is mostly logistics. The medicine is the easy part.
Site and notice
We work through a local school, temple or panchayat rather than arriving unannounced. Word goes out a week ahead, in person and by loudspeaker, because the people who need us most are rarely the people reading notices.
Registration
Every attendee is registered with name, age, village and complaint. It takes time and it is worth it — it is the only way to follow anyone up, and the only way to know what a district is actually suffering from.
Screening and consultation
Vision testing, blood pressure, blood sugar and general examination, then a consultation with a doctor. Volunteers sit with elderly patients who cannot read the forms or the chart.
Dispensing and referral
Medicines and spectacles are given on the spot where possible. Anything needing surgery or specialist care is referred, and we follow up rather than assume the referral was acted on.
Why We Started With Eyes
Eye care is the clearest example of a large problem with a small solution. An elderly farm worker who cannot see properly stops working, stops going out, and is often written off by his own family as confused rather than short-sighted. Cataract and uncorrected refractive error account for an enormous share of avoidable blindness in rural India.
A pair of spectacles costs very little. A cataract operation is routine. What is missing is not medicine but proximity — somebody has to come to the village, test the eyes, hand over the glasses, and arrange the surgery for the ones who need it.
So we run free eye check-up camps, dispense spectacles on site, and refer surgical cases to partner hospitals. It is unglamorous work with a startling return: people go back to work, back to reading, back to being trusted with the grandchildren.
Barriers That Are Not Medical
Most people who go untreated are not refusing treatment. They are defeated by things that have nothing to do with medicine.
Distance and fare. A district hospital forty kilometres away is effectively closed to someone for whom the bus fare is a day’s wage — and it is two fares, because an elder cannot travel alone.
A lost day’s work. For a daily-wage household, a hospital visit costs the consultation plus the wage plus the escort’s wage. The arithmetic usually says wait.
Paperwork and confidence. Forms, queues, and being spoken to briskly in a language that is not quite yours are enough to send people home untreated.
Silence around certain conditions. Mental health, gynaecological complaints and disability are still not discussed. People suffer them privately for years.
Our answer is to remove the distance — go to the village, make it free, sit with people through the paperwork, and treat what they are too embarrassed to name.
Doctors, Hospitals and Volunteers
Camps are only possible because people give up their Sundays.
If you are a doctor
Ophthalmology, general medicine, orthopaedics, gynaecology, paediatrics, dentistry and psychiatry are all needed. Even one camp a quarter makes a difference. Tell us your speciality and your availability and we will fit the calendar around you.
If you are a hospital or lab
We need referral partners for cataract surgery and for diagnostics we cannot run in a field setting. Discounted or pro-bono arrangements let us treat many more people than our own budget allows.
If you have no medical training
You are still needed. Registration desks, crowd management, helping elderly patients between stations, translation, packing medicine, and the follow-up calls afterwards — camps run on this, not on doctors alone.
Healthcare — Your Questions
Who can attend a camp? Is there any eligibility check?
Anyone who turns up. There is no income test, no card to produce and no documentation required. Asking a person to prove they are poor enough to deserve treatment is not something we are willing to do.
Is it genuinely free, including medicines?
Yes. Consultation, screening, and medicines or spectacles dispensed at the camp are free. Where a case must be referred onward for surgery or specialist care, we will tell you honestly what is covered and what is not.
Where and how often are camps held?
Camps are held across the districts around our Noida and Vrindavan centres, in partnership with local schools, temples and panchayats. Dates are announced locally and posted to our news page. To request a camp in your area, write to info@hritanfoundation.com.
What happens if I need surgery?
You will be referred to a partner hospital, and someone from the foundation will follow up to check the referral was acted on. Cases that fall through the cracks usually do so at exactly this step, so we treat it as part of the camp rather than the end of it.
Do you provide ongoing treatment, or only one-off camps?
Both. Camps are the entry point, but chronic conditions need continuity, so registered patients are followed up and can be seen at our Ayurveda centre at the Gurukul. Residents of our old age home receive continuous care.
Do you offer Ayurvedic treatment as well as allopathic?
Yes. Our Ayurveda and naturopathy centre at the Gurukul offers consultations, therapies and herbal preparations alongside the conventional care given at camps. We do not ask people to choose one and abandon the other.
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