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, Mumbai, and the
Government of Bihar, Doctors for You
(DY) aims to provide comprehensive
cancer care for the low-income population
of North Bihar. Such commendable
initiatives are all in a day’s work for DY,
which works to ensure quality medical
care and sustainable health services for
vulnerable communities in rural/tribal areas
during crisis and non-crisis situations, as
well as emergency medical aid and training
in emergency risk and response for people
affected by natural disasters, conflicts and
epidemics.
Its loy goals include strengthening
the RMNCH+ (reproductive, maternal,
newborn and child health) programme
across India, improving access to non
communicable diseases and injuries care
services, preventing and controlling drug-
resistant TB, as well as doing research that
impacts public health interventions in
the field and at policy level including the
successful Public Interest Litigation for the
ban on gutka.
‘As per DY’s theory of change,
sustainable change cannot be achieved
Doctors
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Registration process for cancer screening and
awareness programme
Founded by Dr. Ravikant Singh in 2007
Doctors For You (DFY) works towards
providing sustainable, equitable,
effective and efficient healthcare
services to the most vulnerable
individuals and communities with
the firm belief in ‘health for all’. Its
goals include combating maternal
and child malnutrition, and building
disaster-resilient health, education
and livelihood systems. DFY’s hard
work has been recognized through
the British Medical Journal Award
in 2011, and its founder is the first
and only Indian to be awarded the
SAARC Youth award. DFY currently
works in 23 states with 3,700+ staff. It
has administered more than 8 million
doses of Covid-19 vaccines in 18
states across India and treated over
55,000 Covid-19 patients.