This update is directly quoted from an SSIR Winter 2010 article by Peter A Singer et al. on the Acumen Fund:
"In September 2009, LifeSpring opened its ninth location in
Chilkalguda, Hyderabad, and in the first quarter of 2010 the company reported 70,000 mothers served and 5,000 babies delivered. Currently, it is in discussions with the Indian ministry of health to expand to 500 districts in the country...."
"LifeSpring’s “no frills” model has lowered the price of maternal health services by as much as one half compared with the average private health clinic in India. It does this by employing 180 standardized clinical and operational processes, purchasing equipment and materials in high volumes, and employing auxiliary nurse midwives instead of graduate nurse midwives. In addition, the hospital’s staff is equipped to handle only regular pregnancies, referring more costly, high-risk pregnancies to partner hospitals. In a country where antenatal care coverage and institutional deliveries comprise less than 40 percent of the population, creating additional capacity for standard maternal health treatment was a no-brainer."
LifeSpring is a network of maternity and child healthcare hospitals that provide vital reproductive and pediatric healthcare to low and lower-middle income people in urban and peri-urban areas, with a focus on delivering high quality, low-cost services to women and children in slum areas. This is a joint venture between Acumen Fund and Hindustan Latex Limited, a public sector company in India. Its model rests on building a chain of 30 small hospitals (20-25 beds) across India. The rates charged by LifeSpring hospitals for general ward patients are less than one-third the market rate for normal deliveries and half the rate for caesarian deliveries. Each hospital has the capacity to serve nearly 10,000 low-income patients every year. LifeSpring also expects to provide outpatient services to more than a million people over five years. By improving patient outreach and the quality of care available, LifeSpring's goal is to significantly increase hospital-supervised deliveries and to reduce maternal and child mortality and morbidity rates in the communities that it serves.
Dear sir,
My daughter is doing MD Gynae. She has been alloted Thesis Research work in which she has to use (BRASSS-V ) Calibrated obsteric drapes' to measure blood loss in PPH cases in labour room in Gyane Department Medical College jammu.
Please send the indian partner address or any contact no. so that we can request for the same. mater urgent
Dr. Maqbool Zargar
M.S ENT Specialist (A-Grade)
Govt. Hospital Gandhi Nagar
Jammu (J&K)
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