Mutual Health Organization (MHO)

With objective to ensure a better health care to all the artisians, their family members as well as the community, TARA has established a project on Mutual Health Organization (MHO) in the area of Badarpur, Delhi. In most cases the people in this area didn’t get the right and necessary treatment before.

Within the MHO improved health care facilities could be provided and regular programmes are organized to benefit the larger community.  More than 900 members within this project are provided with the beneficial health care. The community members can take the medical support from its newly established dispensary/ health care centre. It provides a full time medical doctor and a paramedic for providing primary medical support as well the day care facility.

The MHO can be seen as an alternative model as it is self sustainable and not dependant on the government. By ‘Mutual’ we mean a system in which the beneficiaries themselves participate, a system which is governed by them so that they feel the responsibility for making a success. It is a completely transparent system in which the members, with expert guidance, decide about the help to be given to themselves. They themselves lay down the rules and follow them. That way it is an important help in times of their health needs.  Moreover it teaches how to behave responsibly to minimize their health risks.