Taking Heart Care Closer to the Children Who Need It
Free paediatric cardiac camps across urban and rural Maharashtra. A camp is not just a screening — it is the start of a path we follow through to the end.
Most Children Are Not Diagnosed Because Nobody Has Looked
In rural Maharashtra there is often no paediatric cardiologist for a hundred kilometres, no echocardiography machine, and no reason for a family to suspect anything until a child is seriously unwell.
A camp puts a paediatric cardiologist and an echo machine in a village school or a district hospital for a day. Children who would never otherwise be examined get properly screened, and the ones with something wrong get found — often years before they would have been.
Urban camps often work through schools and community organisations. Rural camps run with district hospitals, local doctors, ASHA and anganwadi workers, and community groups who know which children to bring.
A Day, Start to Finish
Registration and history
Parents describe any concerns and the child's growth and feeding.
Clinical examination
Including careful listening for murmurs — the sign most often missed.
Echocardiography on site
Performed and interpreted by the specialist team, free of charge.
Immediate explanation
Parents are told the findings that day, in Marathi, with time to ask questions.
Referral and planning
Children needing further care get a clear plan and a route to specialist evaluation.
Treatment support
For families unable to afford treatment, we work with our funding partners.
Follow-up
Children who need monitoring stay on our list, however far away they live.
Camps Across Fourteen Districts
Camps have been held in both urban and rural settings across Maharashtra.
Moments From the Field
Screening days across urban and rural Maharashtra.
If You Can Gather the Children, We Can Bring the Cardiologist
If you are a school, a hospital, a local authority, an NGO or a community organisation and you want a paediatric cardiac screening camp in your area, get in touch.
We will discuss what is needed — space, power, a room that can be darkened for scanning, and people who know which children to bring — and how to organise it.
Fund the Next Camp
One camp screens hundreds of children and finds the handful who would otherwise never have been diagnosed.