MAHAN Mahatma Gandhi Tribal Hospital

MAHAN is NGO established in 1998 and touched by Gandhian teaching “youths should go to the villages to serve India”. Melghat is the hilly forest difficult to access very impoverished tribal area with grossly inadequate medical facilities with very high mortality and malnutrition.

Interventions and impact: Mahatma Gandhi Tribal Hospital: Treated >120000 patients. Saved >4000 serious patients. Mortality rate of critical covid patients was 13.9 % which is one of the best in world.

Surgeries >3800.

Community-based health programs: Treatment of >180000-person illness episodes have resulted into significant reduction in child deaths, age specific mortality rate (16-60 years), maternal mortality rate, prevalence and deaths of severe malnutrition. Achieved WHO target.

Blindness Control Program: Examined >400000 people, blindness of >26687 patients were prevented.

Counsellor Program for strengthening of government hospitals has benefitted >5,19,700 poor tribal patients.

Developed >10224 nutrition gardens/farms & prevented malnutrition of >4000 families. Government has modified 15 state policies due to MAHAN and benefitted 5 lakhs poor tribal children & pregnant mothers.

Research paper presentation in 25 international journals & 29 international symposia. Harvard university USA, UNICEF and Lancet global health have published success stories of MAHAN.

Dr. Satav was invited by Gates foundation as key note speaker.

Awards: 67. Public Health Champion award by WHO, felicitation by honourable President of India.

VACANCIES as per email communication on June 13 2022

MBBS doctors 2

Dental surgeon 1

Obstetrician 1

Anaesthetist 1

Neonatologist 1 

Laboratory technician 2 

Program manager MPH 2

Accountant 1

MPH 2

Nurse 2