Doctors for You

Provides healthcare to underprivileged communities during normalcy and disasters in addition to training and strengthening them to respond to emergency situations

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  • 80G
  • 12A
  • CSR-1
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About

  • Headquarters

    Mumbai, Maharashtra

  • Since

    2008

Doctors for You works across India with medical assistance during disaster situations and also generally provides healthcare services during normal co Read morenditions. It follows its vision to make healthcare accessible to all, providing services without prejudice towards caste, creed or religion in the fastest possible way, serving remote populations, with accountability towards its stakeholders, involving the community in its efforts and with pure humanitarian intentions free of political affiliations and biases. For its humanitarian efforts, Doctors for You has been decorated with multiple awards like SAARC Youth Award for Outstanding Contribution to Humanitarian works and best medical team in the crisis zone by the British Medical Journal.

Vision & Mission

Our vision is health for all, and our mission is to provide sustainable, equitable, effective, and efficient health care services to the most vulnerable individuals and communities

Donor History

Boeing India Pvt Ltd, Accenture Solution Private Limited, HCL Foundation, NASSCOM Foundation, PFIZER Ltd

Programs

  • Water & Sanitation Programme

    This programme includes collection of used soaps from hotels and transforming them, through appropriate processes, into new usable soap that is distributed to remote parts of rural India to encourage good hand wash practices.

    It has also undertaken the construction of sanitation facilities like toilets and bathrooms in the States of Assam, Tamil Nadu and Jammu & Kashmir to discourage open defecation and encourage better hygiene practices.

  • Environment & Sustainability Programme

    Through its Environment & Sustainability initiatives, Doctors for You aids Anganwadi workers by enabling them to use technology to simplify their work and also supporting infrastructure development which directly leads to improved social services.

    It promotes crop residue management in the Punjab region to reduce cases of stubble burning, directly contributing to the reduction of pollution.

  • Emergency Response Programme

    Its Emergency Response Programme aims to provide humanitarian assistance in crisis situations. It takes up the task to set up mobile medical centres in the affected location, distributing hygiene kits, spreading health information, training local health workers and has also supported the country during floods, rehabilitation during epidemics, earthquakes and communal violence situations.

  • Skill Development & Livelihood Programme

    It conducts six-month certificate courses in health assistant training and a four-month dental assistant training for young girls from underprivileged backgrounds. The courses are customized to cater to girls with minimum qualifications and delivered in Hindi to enable easy learning and secure gainful employment.

  • Public Health & Nutrition Programmes

    This programme works on multiple fronts, one of them being its fight against cancer, wherein, the organization enables donation of medicines, supports chemotherapy and surgery, financial aid for diagnosis and arranges for travel and accommodation for people coming for treatment.

    Its rural initiative focuses on providing accessible healthcare to rural masses enabling primary, secondary and tertiary levels of care. It works in slums and poor settlements to address the nutrition requirements of newborns and young children through screening and counselling sessions with follow-ups and relevant treatment.

    Its Shravan healthcare centre and Poshan initiatives focus respectively on immunization, addressing vitamin A deficiency, deworming and supporting tuberculosis patients with appropriate nutrition to overcome the disease.

  • Cancer Project

    Cancer patient support helpdesks. Working on patients psychological counseling; navigation; financial linkages; dietary counseling ; infections prevention

  • Tb Program (Ppsa)

    With an aim of increasing notification of TB patients, seeking care in the private health sector and for ensuring successful treatment outcomes, Doctors For You is working as an interface agency between the State NTEP department and District Tuberculosis Centre (DTC) for the private health-care ecosystem in the 42 of the district(s) of the 4 states. It shall be taking care of all the patients from the private sector with notification, public health action, Nikshay Poshan Yojana (NPY), linkages of service and treatment support, and providing services like adherence management, free diagnostics support and services like counselling till the end of the treatment.

Impact Metrics

  • Candidates Trained for Skill Development

    Program Name

    Garima Skill Development

    Year-wise Metrics
    • 2017-18 7071
    • 2018-19 8000
    • 2019-20 9132
  • Nutritional Supplements Provided

    Year-wise Metrics
    • 2017-18 1800
    • 2018-19 1800
    • 2019-20 4441
  • Patient Registered Under Program

    Year-wise Metrics
    • 2019-20 0
    • 2020-21 0
    • 2021-22 52828
  • Accommodation and Travel Support

    Year-wise Metrics
    • 2019-20 0
    • 2020-21 0
    • 2021-22 14852
  • No of People Supported in Application for Govt Fund

    Year-wise Metrics
    • 2019-20 0
    • 2020-21 0
    • 2021-22 25844
  • 42 District Notification

    Year-wise Metrics
    • 2019-20 9882
    • 2020-21 26048
    • 2021-22 73044
  • 42 District; Universal Drug Susceptibility Testing

    Year-wise Metrics
    • 2019-20 5530
    • 2020-21 15038
    • 2021-22 36809
  • 42 District Dbt

    Year-wise Metrics
    • 2019-20 7620
    • 2020-21 22523
    • 2021-22 65589
  • Accommodation and Travel Support

    Year-wise Metrics
    • 2021-22 14852
  • No of People Supported in Application for Govt Fund

    Year-wise Metrics
    • 2021-22 25844

Theory of Change

The functioning of Doctors For You is guided by a set of ethical values and guidelines. DFY functions on humanitarian principles of humanity, impartiality, and neutrality. It offers services and assistance to people based on need, irrespective of race, class, caste, religion and gender. The following are vision, mission and guiding principles of Doctors For You (DFY). we believe in bridging the healthcare gap to provide health for all by strengthening the government healthcare infrastructure. Sustainable change is facilitated by the above, with a clear mandate to not create parallel systems but rather create, support and facilitate efficiencies and best practices that eliminate health care disparities and increase access

Milestones & Track Record

DFY MILESTONES ACHIEVED IN 2021-2022

1) Maternal & Child Health Care- 1400+ Pregnant Womens
2) Tuberculosis Patients Notified- 34,000+ TB Patients
3) Cancer patients supported with Patient Navigation Services- 38,000+ Cancer Patients
4) Disaster Management -COVID-19 Patients Treatment- 80,000+ COVID-19 Patients
5) MMU Community Outreached- 100000+Patients
6) Strengthened Capacity of Hospitals- 500+ Hospitals
7) Farmland saved from Crop Burning- 161,000+ acres of ag. land
8) Skill Development of Nursing Assistants, Dental Assistant and Hygiene technicians-2000+
Hygiene Technicians

Doctors for You listed among Top 50 NGO’s, by World Economic Forum, 2021
Best International Organization Ketto Award (2021)
CSR BOX Award 2021 for Covid Relief Response Work, 202

Donor Testimonial

I am associated with DOCTORS FOR YOU since July 2020, where UNICEF collaborated with
DFY for Strengthening Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE), COVID19
surveillance, contact tracing, IPC and ensuring continuity of essential RMNCA health and
nutrition services during COVID19 emergency in two wards of Mumbai. The partnership with
DFY proved extremely strategic for reaching out to the most marginalized and vulnerable
section of the urban slums the expertise and experience of DFY team in emergency work is
remarkable. Based on this experience UNICEF continued the partnership with DFY towards a
long term goal of Health Systems strengthening through comprehensive Urban Primary
Health Care approach in MCGM.
DFY has extremely good connect with the communities and therefore engaging through
DFY gives immense advantage working with vulnerable and marginalized communities. I
would definitely prefer working with DFY in future. - Dr. Mangesh Gadhari, Health Officer, UNICEF

COVID-19 has been taking a toll on people all around the world since 2020, and the situation
in India was no different. Crypto relief opted to work with DFY to support emergency
healthcare responses during these critical times. Our collaboration with DFY has been pivotal
in providing healthcare services and reaching out to marginalised communities through
various Covid-19 focussed programmes.
Doctors for you and our organisation has been associated with each other since the
beginning of 2021 and have collaborated for various projects focussing on addressing the
rural health needs. The district pandemic response and rural outreach program for
addressing health needs of the people living in the rural and tribal areas has been key
highlights of our collaborative work this year. As part of the third wave of Covid-19 support,
Doctors For You (DFY) has created 5 Covid hospitals across India as part of the Crypto Relief
project. The hospitals have a combined capacity of 1000 beds, including 70 intensive care
units and 130 paediatric beds. The centres are being developed in partnership with the local
government and the state health departments across Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar,
Maharashtra and Karnataka. We have also worked together in distribution of ration kits and
setting up of a command centre for COVID-19 affected people.
Our organisation extends appreciation to Doctors For You for their continuous effort and
strong work ethics. We take immense pride in this association formed on the foundation of
transparency and accountability which are our core values.- Mr. Sandeep Nailwal, Crypto relief

Our relationship with Doctors For You during peak of the second wave of the Covid
pandemic resulted in an extremely meaningful and gratifying collaboration between a group
of corporate donars who donated ICU equipment to Government Hospitals in Bangalore. DFY
provided the much needed manpower and operational expertise required to set up and
operationalise ICU in the most challenging times . We are grateful for their commitment &
support, and look forward to combining our efforts in the future to build a safer, healthier
society-Ms. Shaina Ganapathy Assistant Vice President ‑ Community Outreach, Embassy Property Developments Private Limited

Shapoorji Pallonji has been associated with DFY on a nutrition enhancement programme in
2016-19 and we were very impressed with the commitment of the field teams in ensuring the project is undertaken and monitored well. Their Health Assistants who are young girls from the community were specifically trained to educate, create awareness and monitor the
program reach. DFY also was quick to pivot the model based on ground realities and needs
(moving to community-based working from a center based model)”- Zarine Commissariat,
Shapoorji Pallonji

Since last year, COVID-19 has been continuously affecting lives across the globe and the
situation was not much different in India as well. It was during the first wave of COVID- 19
pandemic, Wipro foundation decided to partner with DFY to support the emergency
healthcare responses. Our partnership with DFY has been instrumental in providing critical
healthcare-by setting up isolation and treatment centers, providing ambulance support for
transportation of COVID patients, and reaching out to the marginalized communities
through effective COVID screening programmes, especially in hard-hit locations like Mumbai
and Delhi both during the first and second wave of COVID. DFY was proactive and committed
in this emergency and was well equipped in delivering timely healthcare services, which was
the need of the hour.
We appreciate the way DFY as an organization has adapted towards a system that not only
involves immediate handling of disaster response but their expertise and knowledge in the
domain that make them capable of foreseeing, planning, and preparing for the worst-case
scenarios. If the opportunity presents itself in the future, we would be happy to work with
DFY- Dr. Parvathy Mohandas, Wipro Foundation

Ketto.org is South East Asia's most visited and trusted crowdfunding platform. Co-founded by
Varun Sheth, Zaheer Adenwala and Actor Kunal Kapoor with an aim to bridge the
affordability gap. Here at Ketto, we enable people to raise funds for health and medical
emergencies, natural calamities, education, short-term emergency needs, animal welfare,
women empowerment, and many more.
Over the course of the pandemic, Ketto hosted around 12,500 campaigns and raised over Rs
300 cores for COVID relief fundraisers. Doctors For You (DFY) collaborated with us during this
time and successfully raised funds to assist the country during the COVID crises, especially
when the 2nd wave infested the nation and its resources. DFY assisted in the provision of
oxygen, medical equipment, and other necessities. They even teamed up with celebrities,
public figures, and others to make a bigger impact.
DFY's vision to provide affordable & quality medical relief, sustainable & robust healthcare
services, capacity building & risk reduction activities in crisis or otherwise; aligns with Ketto's
mission to connect people to healthcare and happiness. It was very convenient to be able to
work with a foundation that reflects and follows similar guidelines to Ketto and its future
plans, and it also gave us a boost to keep doing what we're doing.
When our country was hit by the second wave of COVID, health workers from Doctors For
You (DFY) put their lives on the line to help struggling hospitals and critical patients across
the country. Led by COVID War Time Consigliere - Saket Kumar SonuWa, numerous
fundraisers on Ketto contributed to DFY's COVID relief efforts across the country. The
following campaigns are just a few examples of how impactful DFY's campaigns on Ketto had on the nation- Actor & Co- Founder Kunal Kapoor, Ketto

Leadership Team

  • Dr. Taru Sneh Jindal

    Doctor at Doctors for You

  • Dr. Ravikant Singh

    Founder

  • Dr. Rajat Jain

    President

  • Saket Jha

    Secretary

  • Dr. Nidhi Singh

    Jt. Treasurer

  • Rakesh Rane

    CFO

  • G. Shandeepan

    Director

Demographics & Structure

  • No. of Employees

    100+

  • Strength of Governing Body

    7

  • Diversity Metrics

    52% women

M&E

  • Internal, External Assessors

    Yes

Policies

  • Ethics and Transparency Policies

    Yes

  • Formal CEO Oversight & Compensation Policy

    No

Political & Religious Declarations

  • On Affiliation if any

    No

  • On Deployment Bias if any

    No

Organisation Structure

Organisation Structure

Yes

Awards & Recognitions

Doctors For You (DFY) started as a platelet donation and awareness drive to manage the outbreak of Dengue, Leptospirosis and Malaria in Mumbai in 2007. Over the past 14 years, DFY has established itself as an organization with technical capacity to respond to different types of humanitarian crisis. The organization has been working in the field of general healthcare services, public health , emergency response and rehabilitation projects, training and capacity building programme and research studies

The organization has been recognized for its humanitarian work in India and outside. The combined effort of the doctors from different parts of world, paramedics, volunteers and our employees has brought many laurels to the organisation. To name a few we received the following awards and recognitions form Governments:
 Recognition for Covid-19 response by several State Government and recognized Medical Institutions/Hospitals
 Award for Innovation Challenge for Disaster Risk Reduction, Assam State Disaster Management Authority, 2017
 Award by Northeast India Women Initiative (NEIWIP) for Peace, 2016
 Certificate of Appreciation, Government of Nepal, Ministry of Health and Population Appreciates, 2015 (Nepal Earthquake Response, 2015)
 Golden Ruby Award by most respected Ex-President Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, 2015
 Tata Social Enterprise Challenge Award, 2014, IIM Calcutta, Kolkata
 Certificate of Appreciation from Chief Ministers Office, Uttarakhand (Uttarakhand Flood Response, 2013)
 Star TV Award, 2013
 Mumbai Heroes Award, 2013
 Letter of Appreciation from Deputy Commissioner of Chirang and Kokrajhar, 2012 (BTAD Violence Response, 2012)
 Best Doctors Award by E Media News, 2012
 BMJ Group awards for Best Medical Team in Crisis Zone, 2011
 Bihar Foundation award for excellence in Social Service, 2011
 Recognition by Gujarat Government for Humanitarian Health Services, 2011
 SAARC Youth Award for Contribution to Humanitarian Works in the aftermath of Natural Disaster, 2009

Registration Details

  • PAN Card

    AAAJD0785H

  • Registration ID

    F-56886(MUM)

  • 12A

    AAAJD0785HE20214

  • 80G

    AAAJD0785HF20214

  • FCRA

    083781345

  • CSR Registration Number

    CSR00000608

Location

  • Headquarters

    Flat No - 101/102, Building Number - 31, Natwar Parikh Compound,Near India Oil Nagar, Govandi,, Mumbai, 400043

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Other Details

  • Type & Sub Type

    Non-profit
    Trust

Financial Details

 Income / Expenses
  • 2019-20

    Income
    Rs.133,978,263
    Expenses
    Rs.132,009,429
    Admin Expenses
    Rs.21,121,508
    Program Expenses
    Rs.110,887,921
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  • 2020-21

    Income
    Rs.445,998,721
    Expenses
    Rs.392,912,701
    Admin Expenses
    Rs.66,133,821
    Program Expenses
    Rs.326,778,880
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  • 2021-22

    Income
    Rs.2,669,861,736
    Expenses
    Rs.2,313,300,600
    Admin Expenses
    Rs.416,394,108
    Program Expenses
    Rs.1,896,906,492
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