Preventive Health & Clinical Services

Advancing Preventive and Clinical Care

Deepak Foundation’s healthcare interventions moulded in a comprehensive continuum of care encompassing preventive, promotive, curative, and palliative services, designed to address health needs across the life course. Our healthcare models ensures that communities—particularly those in underserved and hard-to-reach areas—receive timely, appropriate, and people-centred care that goes beyond episodic treatment to achieve sustained health outcomes.

Our preventive and promotive health services focus on early risk identification, disease prevention, and the promotion of healthy behaviours. Through mobile health units, diagnostic vans, and community outreach platforms, we conduct systematic screening and early detection for communicable and non-communicable diseases, maternal and adolescent health conditions, and nutritional deficiencies. These services are complemented by structured health education, behaviour change communication, and community mobilisation efforts that empower individuals and families to make informed health choices.

Deepak Foundation’s curative care services ensure timely clinical management of identified conditions through outpatient consultations, basic diagnostics, essential medicines, and referral linkages. Qualified medical teams deliver standardised, protocol-driven treatment for common acute and chronic conditions, while strong referral networks with public and private facilities enable continuity of care for cases requiring advanced diagnostics or specialist interventions.

For individuals with chronic, progressive, or life-limiting illnesses, Deepak Foundation provides compassionate palliative care that prioritises comfort, dignity, and quality of life. Our palliative care approach integrates pain and symptom management, psychosocial support, and home-based care, delivered in close collaboration with families and local health systems. Together, these four dimensions reflect Deepak Foundation’s commitment to delivering equitable, accessible, and holistic healthcare solutions rooted in community needs and public health principles.

Key Programmes

Comprehensive Emergency Obstetric and Neonatal Care (CEmONC)

The Comprehensive Emergency Obstetric and Neonatal Care (CEmONC) unit at Jabugam in Chhota Udepur district, Gujarat was established under a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) between Deepak Foundation and the Department of Health & Family Welfare, Government of Gujarat to improve maternal and newborn health in tribal areas.

Mobile Mammography Unit (MMU)

Deepak Foundation is having two Mobile mammography Unit initiated in 2024 by focusing on early detection of breast cancer in women aged 35 years and above. Mobile mammography Unit is a state of art facility equipped with latest equipment and technology. The Mobile mammography Unit travels to hard-to-reach areas, urban slums and increase access to screening for breast cancer. The MMU also provide awareness on breast, oral and cervical cancer. Nearly 4,800 screening for breast cancer done by Mobile mammography Unit annually.

Help Desk

Deepak Foundation, in partnership with the Department of Health and Family Welfare, the Government of Gujarat has been providing services through its Help Desk at S.S.G. Hospital since 2006. The 24×7 Help Desk unit provides care and support services to those seeking OPDs or are referred in critical cases at the government health facilities. Most of these patients are poor and cannot afford to seek services from private health facilities. The Help Desks at OPD, Emergency, Maternal and Oncology departments have been providing services to more than Sixty Thousand beneficiaries annually and offering support for Rogi Kalyan Samiti approval, Ayushman Bharat Health Account Registration. Help- Desk team assist with navigating the hospital’s complex system, ensuring that patients receive timely and efficient services. Along with Help desk Deepak Foundation also operated Medical Buggies to provide free of cost transport services within the campus of SSG Hospital.

Project Sparsh

Project Sparsh is a school-based adolescent anemia program aimed at addressing the growing concern of anemia among adolescents. The initiative focuses on screening adolescents for anemia, providing early detection, and ensuring timely intervention of iron folic acid supplementation along with Vitamin C to increase absorption or iron. During financial year 2024-25 this project achieves 84% of anemia reversal rate among school going adolescent. By integrating anemia management into the school setting, Project Sparsh is empowering adolescents to take charge of their health and well-being, ultimately contributing to their overall academic and physical performance.

Deepak Multispecialty Hospital

Deepak Multispecialty Hospital is a state-of-the-art 50-bedded multispecialty healthcare facility serving the entire PCPIR Dahej region and 44 nearby villages. The hospital has been established to provide accessible, reliable, and quality healthcare to the community with modern medical infrastructure and experienced professionals.

The hospital offers round-the-clock emergency medical care, including trauma care, intensive care services, advanced diagnostic facilities, and an in-house pharmacy. These 24/7 services ensure timely and effective treatment for medical emergencies and critical conditions

Nidaan Van

Deepak Foundation has a fleet of three Nidaan Vans designed to provide accessible healthcare screenings for underserved communities. Equipped with state-of-the-art diagnostic tools, the van offers screening for Tuberculosis (TB), Diabetes, HIV, Hemoglobin levels, Complete Blood Count, Liver Function Test and refractive errors. The van travels to hard-to-reach areas, urban slums ensuring that individuals can receive vital health check-ups near to their doorstep. This initiative aims to promote early detection and timely referral, ultimately contributing to better public health outcomes in the region.

Nidaan Van provides quick and efficient testing, delivering results that empower individuals to take proactive steps for further treatment.

Home Based Palliative Care Services

We understand that a serious illness affects not just the patient but the entire family. Our home-based palliative care model is designed to provide a “circle of care” that supports everyone involved. Our services are not about giving up hope; they’re about redefining it, helping patients and their loved ones find comfort, peace, and quality of life at every stage.

Project Karuna (Palliative Care)

The palliative care is defined by WHO as “an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problems associated with life-threatening illness, through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification and impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems, physical, psychosocial and spiritual.”

Patient Provider Support Agency (PPSA) under National Tuberculosis Elimination Program

The Government of India has been working on TB since 1962 & launched a program called National Tuberculosis Program which later converted into the Revised National Tuberculosis Program in 1997 which was further converted to National Tuberculosis Elimination Programme, with a goal to eliminate Tuberculosis by 2025.
The project intends to achieve the following specific objectives within three years:

Medical Buggy

Medical Buggy service at SSG Hospital, Vadodara, is designed to provide essential transportation support to patients seeking medical care within the hospital premises. This service is particularly beneficial for patients with mobility challenges, ensuring they can easily navigate the hospital’s big campus.

Mobile Health Unit (MHU)

The Mobile Health Unit (MHU) initiative aims to achieve universal health coverage by ensuring equitable access to quality primary healthcare services for vulnerable populations in rural and tribal regions. Operated by Deepak Foundation, the initiative focuses on promotive, preventive, and curative healthcare while significantly reducing out-of-pocket expenditure.