A group of health professionals have been to Gandinaghar neighbourhood, in the region of Ooty in southern India, for four weeks with the association Es Purna to set up a health clinic for the native population.

To collaborate and start the project, the Dos de Mayo Hospital provided them with consumables (syringes, gauzes, sutures, gloves, bandages, etc) and besides Monica Rey, nurse of the hospital, is one of the professionals who moved to India to work on building the facility.

The objective of these collaborators was to assist more than 100 grown-ups and children of the neighbourhood and train a person from the area to take actions of basic hygiene and health.

A shunt circuit with the public hospital of Ooty has also been created. Although in India healthcare is a matter of the State, the user must pay for tests and medication. For this reason, a bulk of the population of the area eventually does not go to hospital, so for future trips the new circuit will let aid workers take the most severe patients to the hospital and give them the proper treatment, subsidized by Es Purna.

Ooty is situated in Nilgiri, an Indian district in the state of Tamil Nadu. It is located in a mountainous region with a difficult access. Its inhabitants, who mainly work in the tea harvest for a living, live in poverty and hospitals are very long distances away.

Es Purna is a non-profit association of International cooperation, whose main challenge is to fight against poverty in the Nilgiri area.