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Manish Pande Tishya Mahajan
Director and Head, Analyst,
PAD Division PAD Division

Voluntary Certification Scheme

for Traditional Community

Healthcare Providers – Providing

Healthcare at the grassroots

Thousands convened for Samvaad 2019 – the Annual Tribal Conclave
of Tata Steel – at Jamshedpur, Jharkhand on 17th November 2019

A vibrant gathering of tribal age-old traditional healthcare champions of traditional health
communities from across India, knowledge and skills into practices and continue to make
South Africa, Mexico, Uganda, practice. One such story was of unflagging efforts to provide
Cameroon, Trinidad, and Tobago, Kaali Amma, a female traditional accessible and affordable healthcare
and other nations which advocates healthcare provider from a village services. India is home to nearly
for the empowerment of indigenous in Tamil Nadu, who shared how she a million such TCHPs (Traditional
communities, organized this accomplished the massive feat of Community Healthcare Providers),
Conclave to encourage a healthy reintroducing iron-rich ingredients who use more than 6500 species
discourse to ‘revive, preserve and in the daily diet of 36 severely of medicinal plants, around
300 species of animals and also
anaemic women in her village, to
promote tribal culture.’
| Oc t ober - Dec ember 2 0 19 event was on “Traditional and healthcare provider from Andhra to their communities. They are
increase their haemoglobin levels.
dozens of metals and minerals,
One of the workshops in the
to provide primary healthcare
Sampurna, another traditional
Modern Medicine – Coalition
repositories of centuries of wisdom
Pradesh, shared that she uses her
for Bridging Gaps in Universal
and evolving knowledge of health
homemade medicinal concoctions
Access to Healthcare,” which
practices, transmitted through
to treat Menorrhagia (excessive
saw a convergence of numerous
menstrual bleeding) in one go.
an incredibly effective system of
traditional healthcare providers.
oral transmission, either inherited
Each of them keenly shared
Women like Kaali Amma and
through family lineage or acquired
42 inspiring stories of putting the Sampurna are unrecognized under the ‘Guru-Shishya Parampara’