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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Placed on FCRA blacklist, PHFI worked with govts, from Chhattisgarh to North East -Abantika Ghosh

Placed on FCRA blacklist, PHFI worked with govts, from Chhattisgarh to North East -Abantika Ghosh

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published Published on Apr 26, 2017   modified Modified on Apr 26, 2017
-The Indian Express

In 2015, the BJP government of Chhattisgarh, represented by health minister Ajay Chandrakar, signed an MoU with PHFI to upgrade specialist doctors in Naxal-hit Bastar.

SINCE last week, the top public health NGO Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) has been in the crosshairs of the NDA government, barred from accepting foreign funds. But not very long ago, it was the preferred partner of not just the UPA government but many BJP governments in states as well.

As recently as October last year, Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani inaugurated the state-of-the-art new campus of the Indian Institute of Public Health- Gandhinagar (IIPHG), the western regional campus of the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI). In 2007, Narendra Modi, as CM, had done the bhoomi pujan for this university.

In 2015, the BJP government of Chhattisgarh, represented by health minister Ajay Chandrakar, signed an MoU with PHFI to upgrade specialist doctors in Naxal-hit Bastar. Subsequently, the Chhattisgarh government, in collaboration with UNICEF & PHFI, started work to attract and retain specialised human resources for health in the districts Bijapur and Sukma.

Incidentally, the Swadeshi Jagran Manch, the economic wing of the RSS, has been severely critical of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation which is one of the contributors, along with the government of India, to the PHFI seed fund and continues to be one of its donors.

Consider some of the other key projects the PHFI has worked on with BJP governments/municipal authorities:

* The government of Gujarat in October 2013 signed an MoU with PHFI and adopted the Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM) training model of the foundation for its medical officers. PHFI trained 38 officers from Gujarat.

* In August 2015, Anil Mukim, Additional Chief Secretary of the government of Gujarat, wrote to Dileep Mavalankar, director of IIPH Gandhinagar: “I am happy to write this letter appreciating the work which IIPH has done to help Gujarat government on various issues and policy formation, programme design, documenting government work and helping improve implementation of health programmes.”

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The Indian Express, 26 April, 2017, http://indianexpress.com/article/india/placed-on-fcra-blacklist-phfi-worked-with-govts-from-chhattisgarh-to-north-east-4628480/


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