Mahan Trust

Dr. Ashish Satav (MD) and his wife, Dr. Kavita Satav (MS ophthalmology) left their secure jobs at medical college to start MAHAN Trust which provides Read morehealthcare in one of the poorest and most deprived parts of India – the Melghat region, where medical facilities were very scarce and under-5 mortality rates were twice that of the national average. MAHAN’s programs include Hospital, Critical Care Facilities, pediatric hospital , Home Based Child Care (HBCC), Malnutrition Eradication (SAMMAN), Providing Locally Prepared Therapeutic Food to malnourished children, Mortality Control Program for Economically Productive Age Group, Blindness Control, De-Addiction Program, Kitchen Garden(KG) and Nutrition Farm (NF) and Counsellor Program for strengthening of government hospitals. Dr Kavita has selflessly supported all of MAHAN’s initiatives and has spearheaded the blindness control program, often personally conducting door to door screenings in over 400 remote villages, spreading awareness to convince tribal to come to the hospital for eye check-ups and surgeries and braving the dangers of the forest environment to personally reach her patients and treat them. MAHAN’s community health programs have reduced child mortality and severe malnutrition by more than 65%, reduced the death rate in economically productive age group and maternal mortality by more than 50%. MAHAN has provided free services of specialists’ doctors to more than 120,000 patients, saved more than 3000 critically ill tribal patients, provided vision to more than 21,000 tribal patients by cataract surgery and providing spectacles and provided free plastic surgery to >1000 tribal. MAHAN could improve 17 government hospitals benefitting >300000 tribal. MAHAN could improve lives of more than 7,00,000 tribal people especially children and women due to their efforts in changing Government policies, expanding many state health and ICDS policies. MAHAN trust research has been published in many international medical journals like Lancet and Harvard USA, international conferences as key note speaker e.g. London, has won several national and international awards e.g. World Health Organization’s Public Health Champion Award, for social service, advocacy and pioneering medical research. Due to very good work many international organizations e.g. University of Colarado, Denver, USA, Nottingham’s university UK, UNICEF, etc. have collaborated with MAHAN for its work in Melghat. MAHAN could develop >6000 NF, KG in 16 tribal villages producing > 100000 kg green vegetables, pulses, etc. by tribal farmers.           Due to MAHAN’s efforts, three villages are free from social drinking of alcohol.