Mobile Breast Cancer Screening Clinic

Following a hugely successful Diabetes Outreach Program covering 900+ villages and screening 150,000 subjects – which inspired the State Government to follow the model, we are now addressing another Health Issue which is peculiar to Rural Villages in India. Breast Cancer Screening. Breast Cancer is becoming a leading cause of all cancer related deaths.

In one of the protocol, the ASHA goes to as many households and does Random Blood Glucose test. The villagers having Random Blood Glucose more than 140 mg/dl are advised to visit the Mobile Diabetes Clinic.

Apart from lack of necessary facilities the stigma attached to Breast Cancer is very high in Rural Areas in India which prevent Women from basic screening. So Chellaram Foundation decided to reach out to them at their doorsteps as we did successfully for Diabetes through Hub and Spoke Model with a team of Trained Health Care Workers and well recognised Screening Facility. The screening technology using thermal imaging is completely contactless and thereby address the “stigma” issue to a great extent. We have taken ASHAs (Accredited Social Health Activists) on Board for this screening. We have also made arrangements for referring the high-risk subjects as a result of screening to a well-known Cancer Centre in Pune for further Diagnosis and Treatment. We expect that this initiative would hugely benefit the Women Population in India as it is believed that in most of the cases of Breast Cancer, it can be cured if detected early.