Working with Local Partners

No medical project should operate in isolation from the local healthcare system. The Project will work in co-operation with other local providers in a two-way approach of cooperation. In addition to the benefit which can be gained from local providers, the Project hopes to influence them to raise their own standards to those that the Maitreya Healthcare Project will set.

The Project will work in co-operation with local primary health workers and doctors, and with local hospitals in Kasia and Gorakhpur. This co-operation may take the form of accepting patients referred to us by other services, transferring patients and care back into the community or to other, more suitable hospitals, and shared approaches to education and the training of staff.

Our mobile health units will work in the rural panchayats, providing care in remote villages where health services are presently limited. In this way, the Maitreya Healthcare Project can complement services provided by the Ministry of Health.

The Project will also seek to address unmet health needs and promote healthcare within communities, while providing linkages to a larger network of services including government secondary and tertiary referral centres (and private health care services when necessary).