UNDER PRVILEGED – CARE OF THE UNDER PRIVILEGED

Nature or God has bestowed brains to human beings with the power of thinking and making a choice of one’s own. By a legal system or a social system or by faith of a religion,
if a person is not empowered to make a choice, such a person is an underprivileged. Having defined what is “underprivileged” in our perception, Care India
identified that inmates of the Female Ward at Yerawada Prisons are one such category of underprivileged community in our immediate neighborhood being part of the society.
They are surrounded by walls on all sides. They do not have access to a “doctor of their choice”. It does not mean that the system of Prisons is wrong or that no
lady doctor is assigned to attend them/ visit them to provide medical support.
It simply means that like other women outside the Prison, they have no choice visit any doctor she prefers based on her economic status.

Therefore in September 1999, in keeping with our commitment to the underprivileged, CIMS offered to send a gynecologist from MATRUSEVA once a week to the
Female Ward at Yerawada Prisons with due permission of the Inspector General of Prisons. This programme provides free health care to support the female inmates
of Yerawada Prison and treats them for health problems specific to women. We have observed that the Hb count of the female inmates which was earlier at an
average of ‘8’ has now improved to ‘11’ among most of them. They are also better off with vaginal infections well under control and their other ailments well
attended to. This small effort is to make available an additional choice of a doctor once a week. Sending a doctor to outreach patients inside Prisons is a small
act of our commitment and sensitivity towards the needs of the underprivileged.