Aarogya Vahini Trust

Delivers free, high-quality healthcare through mobile medical clinics, preventive care, and community empowerment

  • FCRA
  • 80G
  • 12A
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About

  • Headquarters

    Kolkata, West Bengal

  • Since

    2021

Aarogya Vahini Trust is a charitable organisation focused on delivering free, high-quality healthcare to underserved communities in India. Through its Read more Sri Sathya Sai Aarogya Vahini initiative, it operates mobile medical clinics equipped with advanced portable technology, ensuring essential medical services reach remote areas. It aligns its efforts with global and national health policies, prioritising preventive primary healthcare to drive societal transformation through compassionate medical interventions. Its approach bridges gaps in accessibility, affordability, and treatment, offering comprehensive care to those in need. Committed to holistic healthcare, Aarogya Vahini Trust integrates promotive, preventive, curative, and rehabilitative services to address diverse health challenges. It empowers individuals and families by providing essential medical support while advocating for policies that enhance health and well-being. Its work extends beyond treatment, fostering community involvement and self-care practices to ensure sustainable improvements in healthcare accessibility and public health awareness.

Impact

Over seven years, Arogya Vahini Trust has provided healthcare access to 700,000 individuals through 121,000 consultations, 1,469 mobile camps, and 680 surgeries. It operates one Sai Swasthya centre and 40 rural health stations across six states—West Bengal, Jharkhand, Odisha, Bihar, Assam, and Uttarakhand—reaching 200 villages. Its efforts include 497 OPD sessions, 484 TMU sessions, and 100 mobile medical camps per month, with 66% of beneficiaries being rural women.

Programs

  • Primary Preventive Healthcare

    The organisation enhances healthcare accessibility through mobile medical units, offering screenings for non-communicable diseases and cancer while promoting preventive health measures. It provides free medical services for mothers and children, ensuring early detection and treatment for birth defects and developmental delays. Its outpatient consultations cover multiple specialities, utilising urban and rural medical units and telemedicine to connect patients with specialists. Additionally, it supports chronic disease management through diagnostic services and pharmacy assistance while fostering health education through training programs and technological innovations, ultimately improving healthcare delivery for underserved communities.

  • Sai Swasthya

    The organisation provides comprehensive healthcare services focusing on antenatal care, child health screening, investigative support, and non-communicable disease management. It ensures that expecting mothers receive medical consultations, essential supplements, and nutritional support, while children benefit from specialised screenings for cardiac, ophthalmic, and dental health. It also facilitates cataract screenings and surgeries, post-operative care, and diabetes and hypertension monitoring with structured follow-ups. Additionally, it promotes health education and awareness, enhancing preventive care and early intervention for underserved communities.

  • Surgical Interventions

    Arogya Vahini Trust collaborates with like-minded organisations and hospitals to provide free surgical interventions, ensuring a complete treatment pathway from primary to tertiary care. It facilitates procedures in pediatric cardiac and general surgery, cleft palate correction, and cataract treatment, making specialised healthcare accessible to those in need. Through its network, it successfully arranges surgeries at no cost, strengthening its mission to deliver comprehensive medical support.

  • Sri Samriddhi Malnutrition Prevention Programme

    Arogya Vahini Trust implements the Sri Samriddhi Malnutrition Prevention Program to address nutrient deficiencies and dietary imbalances among children. It follows a multi-level approach to ensure proper nutrition. The Breakfast Program, inspired by the Sri Sathya Sai Annapoorna Breakfast initiative, aims to prevent schoolchildren from attending classes hungry. Since 2015, it has provided around 80,000 breakfasts over five years, serving 60 children daily in West Bengal. The initiative also includes periodic health screenings to monitor and support children's well-being.

  • Disaster Relief & Rehabilitation

    Arogya Vahini Trust actively engages in disaster relief and rehabilitation, responding to natural calamities and health crises. During the COVID-19 outbreak, it supported healthcare workers with protective kits to strengthen preventive measures. It addressed community needs by distributing food, medicines, and hygiene kits in affected areas. In 2019, it aided 2,000 flood victims in Morigaon, Assam, and supported cyclone-affected fishermen in Penthakata, Odisha, with essential supplies. It constructs rehabilitative homes for displaced communities in the Sundarbans. Every summer, it supplies drinking water to villages in South 24 Parganas and distributes water to hospitals, pedestrians, and police in Kolkata. It annually provides blankets and food to the homeless on Christmas, conducts sanitation programs to prevent disease, supports elderly individuals with medicines and rations, and organises mass community feeding during difficult times.

Leadership Team

  • Amrita Roy Mukherjee

    Chairperson

  • Bhay Bhanjan Saha

    Trustee

M&E

  • Internal, External Assessors

    No

Policies

  • Ethics and Transparency Policies

    No

  • Formal CEO Oversight & Compensation Policy

    No

Political & Religious Declarations

  • On Affiliation if any

    No

  • On Deployment Bias if any

    No

Registration Details

  • PAN Card

    AAFTA4056M

  • Registration ID

    233749/16

  • VO ID / Darpan ID

    WB/2019/0247147

  • 12A

    AAFTA4056ME20216

  • 80G

    AAFTA4056MF20214

  • FCRA

    147121124

  • CSR Registration Number

    Not Available

Location

  • Headquarters

    2 Kailash Pandit Lane, New Alipore, Kolkata, 700053

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Other Details

  • Type & Sub Type

    Non-profit
    Trust