Our Objectives
1. Capacity Building and Health Systems Strengthening
Enabling India’s healthcare cadres with increased knowledge, skills, and up-to-date clinical evidence will improve healthcare quality across the nation.
Aastrika aims to break existing barriers to continuous learning for healthcare workers, through learning resources that are high quality, easily accessible, freely available, have valuable impact on career prospects, and use modern pedagogy, including simulation and other tools for effective skill-building.
Our Role : Upskilling healthcare workers through Aastrika Sphere
2. Establishing a Professional Midwifery Cadre
Building a midwifery cadre trained to international standards, specialised in pregnancy, normal labour and physiologic childbirth, and postpartum care.
Our Role : Supporting the GOIs Nurse Practitioners in Midwifery program in Karnataka
GOIs Nurse Practitioners in Midwifery (NPM) program at Vanivilas Hospital, Bengaluru
Aastrika Foundation is supporting the Government of India’s (GOI) Nurse Practitioners in Midwifery (NPM) program, launched in 2018. The program envisions the establishment of Midwife Led Care Units (MLCUs) in high caseload public health facilities to serve low-risk mothers and tackle the challenges of "Too Much, Too Soon" and "Too Little, Too Late."
3. Creating Demand for High Quality Care
Raising awareness about the maternal health challenges and solutions among governments, policy makers, and society will enable reforms and improve the quality of care.
Our Role : Engaging on multiple platforms to address maternal healthcare challenges
Aastrika Outreach Programs
We engage and participate on social media platforms, events, conferences, webinars, as well as with media to raise awareness about the challenges and brainstorm and build consensus on solutions towards addressing the demand and supply side challenges in maternal healthcare.
