Versatile “pipeline” into troubled areas

Operation ASHA's TB treatment centers serve as low-cost, efficient and accessible pipeline penetrating deep into the slums where others have failed to reach.

As Shashi Bulaswar, a management expert with Dahlberg Global Development Advisors put it, “Operation ASHA has laid the last quarter mile of the cable that connects the fibre-optics to individual households. They are making the infrastructure created mostly by the government, i.e. hospitals and diagnostic centers, accessible to individual patients.”

The TB Association of Delhi and other organizations have used this pipeline to distribute food rations, blankets, educational material, iron and vitamin tablets and even free testing and vaccination for Hepatitis B. Thus, our "pipeline" has proved its versatility. It has the potential of handling not only health care but the entire gamut of poverty reduction programs.