About

The Community Health Department at St. Martha's Hospital was established in 1986 and is committed to providing comprehensive healthcare services to socially disadvantaged and marginalized groups, promoting health equity and social justice.

The department believes that mobile camps are the most cost-effective way to reach urban populations. Temporary clinics, along with health education and counselling stations, help in providing immediate and holistic care. The Community health department has an outreach multispeciality clinic at Uttarahalli. The department has established the DOTS program for tuberculosis patients at St. Martha’s hospital.

Core Strategies

  • Preventive: Identifying and mitigating health risks
  • Promotive: Encouraging healthy behaviour and practices
  • Curative: Providing medical treatment and care
  • Community Participation: Empowering communities to take ownership of health
  • Intersectoral Collaboration: Partnering with stakeholders for holistic solutions

Target Populations

  • Waste handlers
  • Children in remand homes
  • Prisoners
  • Malnourished children
  • Individuals with mental challenges
  • Abandoned women
  • Isolated elderly people
  • Migrants
  • Other underprivileged communities

Outreach Programs

  • Mobile health camps for waste handlers at various slums in collaboration with an NGO.
  • School health programmes
  • Routine health checkups, health education and counselling for children at orphanages.
  • Outreach multi-specialty clinic in Uttarahalli.


St. Martha's Hospital, Bengaluru