The Khejri Association derives it name from the Khejri tree (prosopis cineraria) which grows in the arid parts of North India. The locals consider it to be a symbol of good luck.

The Khejri Association is a rural health inititiative and provides free basic medical care. The Health Centre functions in the morning hours from 8.30am – 12.30 noon (winter from 9am – 1 pm). Since 1st January 2001 we also have an Evening Clinic for 2 hours from 5 – 7pm (4 –6pm in winter). The patients pay a nominal, one time registration fee of Rs.10 (Euro 0.25) and receive free treatment for the entire duration of the disease and free medicines.

From its inception till 31st March 2002 the Health Centre has provided more than 75,000 free individual consultations and health care at the Centre to the people of this area. While last year there had been 14,141 consultations the attendance during the year under review has increased to 23,617. This means an increase of 67.5% over last year with the same infrastructure! As in previous years approximately 40% of our patients are women; 40% are children and 20% are men.

The diseases with higher incidences are: upper respiratory infections – chronic bronchitis, asthmatic, tubercular and non-tubercular; various types of skin diseases and infections, diseases of the stomach and intestines, including diarrhoea, dysentery, dyspepsia; different diseases due to nutritional deficiency, various types of pelvic inflammatory diseases and all kinds of gynaecological complications of female patients due to bad sex hygiene and repeated child birth under unhygienic conditions at home; various eye diseases and ENT diseases and many injuries.

Out of the total number of patients' visits (23617) a further break-up shows: 280 antenatal consultations attended to by our gynaecologist; 1114 eye patients' consultations attended to in our Sunday morning eye clinic ( 21 cataract patients were subsequently operated upon free of charge, paid for by our health centre). The Evening Clinic received 4428 patients' consultations, while the number of actual Tuberculosis patients during the year was 41, who were under extensive treatment for several months.

We have administered 335 immunisations, mainly at the Health Centre, against DPT, TT, Polio, and Measles. Our laboratory has conducted a total of 1089 blood investigations, 541 urine investigations, 87 pregnancy tests and 9 semen analysis, besides 341 sputum examinations.