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Lords
Education and
Health Society
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ANM and ASHA on a home visit to support maternal
and child health
Founded by Sunil Wadhwani in 2003
Lords Education and Health Society
(LEHS), commonly known as WISH
Foundation, strives to create an
equitable healthcare system and make
quality primary healthcare available
and accessible to everyone. With a
vision of quality healthcare for all by
improving PHCs through innovation
and systems strengthening, they
have covered a population of over
140 million, with 44.87 million
patients-consults, till date. Their
tireless efforts have won them several
awards and recognition including
‘Best Start-up in Healthcare’ by
the Ministry of Health and Family
Welfare, Government of India, at
Ayushman Bharat Summit 2019. They
aim to facilitate access to affordable
and high-quality healthcare for 100
million persons in the developing
world by 2027.
, primary healthcare
needs to be considerably strengthened. Lords
Education and Health Society (LEHS) works
towards this very goal through its flagship
programme in India, WISH (Wadhwani
Initiative for Sustainable Healthcare). is
programme, through a Public Private
Partnership model, leverages the advantages
of partnering with the government to
augment the quality of primary healthcare
services. rough innovations and bringing
in financial and technical resources,
LEHS|WISH makes healthcare accessible
and affordable to underserved communities
through a fully compliant, operational and
resilient healthcare delivery system.
ese partnerships with the states are
as its website states, ‘the fulcrum of the
LEHS|WISH healthcare delivery model’s
success and sustainability.’ LEHS|WISH
first partnered with the Government of
Rajasthan in 2015 to pilot the Primary
Healthcare Systems Strengthening model
in 32 rural PHCs. ereaer, it helped
the Delhi Government set up Aam Admi
Mohalla Clinics in 104 locations across Delhi.
Implementing these models, as well as others