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  • Washermen (locally known as Dhobis) wash hospital clothes at the Laundromat in Dhobighat in India's financial capital, Mumbai, India. The laundry comes from different sections of the society - from hospital to hospitality to garment factories and normal households.
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  • 24 year old Jaikunwar walks around the hospital before admitting her malnutritioned 15 month old daughter, Anjana to the 'Nutritional Reahabilitation Centre' at the pediatrics section of Community Health Centre (Block Hospital) in Talbehat, Uttar Pradesh, India. The Indian government spends $1.4 billion a year - on programs that include weighing newborn babies, counseling mothers on healthy eating and supplementing meals, but none of this is yeilding results. According to UNICEF, some 48% of Indian children, or 61 million kids, remain malnourished, the clinical condition of being so undernourished that their physical and mental growth are stunted. Photo: Sanjit Das/Panos for The Wall Street Journal.Slug: IMALNUT
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  • A doctor comes out to inform the patients' family of the successful operation as they wait outside the operation theatre at the local hospital in Chalisgaon, Maharashtra, India. Rotary Club organises a free medical camp for the poor and needy. India's leading Micro and plastic surgeons visit the medical camp and provide free medical service.
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  • Surgeons conduct corrective surgery to a young child at the local hospital in Chalisgaon, Maharashtra, India. Rotary Club organises a free medical camp for the poor and needy. India's leading Micro and plastic surgeons visit the medical camp and provide free medical service.
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  • A young boy suffering from cataract seen at the stabilization centre of the Lokitaung District Hospital in the Turkana region of northwestern Kenya. Photo: Sanjit Das/Panos
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  • 24 year old Jaikunwar with her 9 year old son, Mahendra (left) and her malnutritioned 15 month old daughter, Anjana are seen outside the 'Nutritional Reahabilitation Centre' at the pediatrics section of Community Health Centre (Block Hospital) in Talbehat, Uttar Pradesh, India. The Indian government spends $1.4 billion a year - on programs that include weighing newborn babies, counseling mothers on healthy eating and supplementing meals, but none of this is yeilding results. According to UNICEF, some 48% of Indian children, or 61 million kids, remain malnourished, the clinical condition of being so undernourished that their physical and mental growth are stunted. Photo: Sanjit Das/Panos for The Wall Street Journal.Slug: IMALNUT
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  • The hairy naevus is removed and a skin patch is seen on the face of 9 year old Tarannum Sheikh Rayees after a long operation at the local hospital in Chalisgaon, Maharashtra, India. Rotary Club organises a free medical camp for the poor and needy. India's leading Micro and plastic surgeons visit the medical camp and provide free medical service.
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  • Corrective surgeon, Dr. Shanker Subramanium conducts the operation of removal of hairy naevus of 9 year old Tarannum Sheikh Rayees at the local hospital in Chalisgaon, Maharashtra, India. Rotary Club organises a free medical camp for the poor and needy. India's leading Micro and plastic surgeons visit the medical camp and provide free medical service.
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  • Corrective surgeon, Dr. Shanker Subramanium on the operation table at the local hospital in Chalisgaon, Maharashtra, India. Rotary Club organises a free medical camp for the poor and needy. India's leading Micro and plastic surgeons visit the medical camp and provide free medical service.
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  • Corrective surgeon, Dr. Shanker Subramanium consults the hairy naevus case of 9 year old Tarannum Sheikh Rayees with another surgeon on the operation table at the local hospital in Chalisgaon, Maharashtra, India. Rotary Club organises a free medical camp for the poor and needy. India's leading Micro and plastic surgeons visit the medical camp and provide free medical service.
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  • A family member peeps in through the operation theatre door at the local hospital in Chalisgaon, Maharashtra, India. Rotary Club organises a free medical camp for the poor and needy. India's leading Micro and plastic surgeons visit the medical camp and provide free medical service.
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  • Micro hand surgeon, Dr. Pankaj Jindal shows a successful operation of a case of burn contracture of a young boy at the local hospital in Chalisgaon, Maharashtra, India. Rotary Club organises a free medical camp for the poor and needy. India's leading Micro and plastic surgeons visit the medical camp and provide free medical service.
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  • A nurse offers help as corrective surgeon, Dr. Shanker Subramanium conducts surgery to a young woman at the local hospital in Chalisgaon, Maharashtra, India. Rotary Club organises a free medical camp for the poor and needy. India's leading Micro and plastic surgeons visit the medical camp and provide free medical service.
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  • Micro hand surgeon, Dr. Pankaj Jindal shows the seperated fingers of  a young boy who suffers from polydactyly (fused fingers) after corrective surgery to a young child at the local hospital in Chalisgaon, Maharashtra, India. Rotary Club organises a free medical camp for the poor and needy. India's leading Micro and plastic surgeons visit the medical camp and provide free medical service.
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  • Micro hand surgeon, Dr. Pankaj Jindal (left) conducts corrective surgery to a young child at the local hospital in Chalisgaon, Maharashtra, India. Rotary Club organises a free medical camp for the poor and needy. India's leading Micro and plastic surgeons visit the medical camp and provide free medical service.
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  • Surgeons conduct corrective surgery to a young child at the local hospital in Chalisgaon, Maharashtra, India. Rotary Club organises a free medical camp for the poor and needy. India's leading Micro and plastic surgeons visit the medical camp and provide free medical service.
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  • Hand Micro surgeon, Dr. Pankaj Jindal examines the hand of a young boy at the local hospital in Chalisgaon, Maharashtra, India. Rotary Club organises a free medical camp for the poor and needy. India's leading Micro and plastic surgeons visit the medical camp and provide free medical service.
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  • Patients wait to see their family members as they are inside the operation theatre at the local hospital in Chalisgaon, Maharashtra, India. Rotary Club organises a free medical camp for the poor and needy. India's leading Micro and plastic surgeons visit the medical camp and provide free medical service.
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  • A patient with short digits waits to see the visiting doctors at the local hospital in Chalisgaon, Maharashtra, India. Rotary Club organises a free medical camp for the poor and needy. India's leading Micro and plastic surgeons visit the medical camp and provide free medical service.
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  • Patients wait to see the visiting doctors in the local hospital in Chalisgaon, Maharashtra, India. Rotary Club organises a free medical camp for the poor and needy. India's leading Micro and plastic surgeons visit the medical camp and provide free medical service.
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  • A patient with burn contractures looks on as Sr. Shanker Subraminum (left) explains the problem to other local doctors at the local hospital in Chalisgaon, Maharashtra, India. Rotary Club organises a free medical camp for the poor and needy. India's leading Micro and plastic surgeons visit the medical camp and provide free medical service.
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  • Names are read out as patients wait to see the visiting doctors in the local hospital in Chalisgaon, Maharashtra, India. Rotary Club organises a free medical camp for the poor and needy. India's leading Micro and plastic surgeons visit the medical camp and provide free medical service.
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  • Patients wait to see the visiting doctors in the local hospital in Chalisgaon, Maharashtra, India. Rotary Club organises a free medical camp for the poor and needy. India's leading Micro and plastic surgeons visit the medical camp and provide free medical service.
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  • Mothers seen with their malnutritioned children at the stabilization centre of the Lokitaung District Hospital in the Turkana region of northwestern Kenya. Photo: Sanjit Das/Panos
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  • 42-year-old Khamilo gives oral rehydration to her 4 year malnutrioned son, Mowlit at the stabilization ward of the GIZ Main Hospital in the Dadaab refugee camp in northeastern Kenya. Photo: Sanjit Das/Panos
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  • Patients wait to see the visiting doctors in the local hospital in Chalisgaon, Maharashtra, India. Rotary Club organises a free medical camp for the poor and needy. India's leading Micro and plastic surgeons visit the medical camp and provide free medical service. Photographer: Sanjit Das
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  • Patients wait to see the visiting doctors in the local hospital in Chalisgaon, Maharashtra, India. Rotary Club organises a free medical camp for the poor and needy. India's leading Micro and plastic surgeons visit the medical camp and provide free medical service. Photographer: Sanjit Das
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  • Patients wait to see the visiting doctors in the local hospital in Chalisgaon, Maharashtra, India. Rotary Club organises a free medical camp for the poor and needy. India's leading Micro and plastic surgeons visit the medical camp and provide free medical service. Photographer: Sanjit Das
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  • Patients wait to see the visiting doctors in the local hospital in Chalisgaon, Maharashtra, India. Rotary Club organises a free medical camp for the poor and needy. India's leading Micro and plastic surgeons visit the medical camp and provide free medical service. Photographer: Sanjit Das
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  • Zubeida, the grand mother of the 9 year old Tarannum Sheikh Rayees waits outside the operation theatre at the local hospital in Chalisgaon, Maharashtra, India. Rotary Club organises a free medical camp for the poor and needy. India's leading Micro and plastic surgeons visit the medical camp and provide free medical service.
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  • Corrective surgeon, Dr. Shanker Subramanium consults the hairy naevus case of 9 year old Tarannum Sheikh Rayees with another surgeon on the operation table at the local hospital in Chalisgaon, Maharashtra, India. Rotary Club organises a free medical camp for the poor and needy. India's leading Micro and plastic surgeons visit the medical camp and provide free medical service.
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  • 9 year old Tarannum Sheikh Rayees has hairy naevus and is examined by the visiting surgeon, Dr. Shanker Subramanium at the local hospital in Chalisgaon, Maharashtra, India. Rotary Club organises a free medical camp for the poor and needy. India's leading Micro and plastic surgeons visit the medical camp and provide free medical service.
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  • Micro hand surgeon, Dr. Pankaj Jindal shows a case of burn contracture of a young boy before he conducts the operation at the local hospital in Chalisgaon, Maharashtra, India. Rotary Club organises a free medical camp for the poor and needy. India's leading Micro and plastic surgeons visit the medical camp and provide free medical service.
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  • A patient looks on as surgeons conduct corrective surgery to a young woman at the local hospital in Chalisgaon, Maharashtra, India. Rotary Club organises a free medical camp for the poor and needy. India's leading Micro and plastic surgeons visit the medical camp and provide free medical service.
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  • Surgeons conduct corrective surgery to a young child at the local hospital in Chalisgaon, Maharashtra, India. Rotary Club organises a free medical camp for the poor and needy. India's leading Micro and plastic surgeons visit the medical camp and provide free medical service.
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  • A young child is seen lying unconscious after anesthesia on the operation theatre at the local hospital in Chalisgaon, Maharashtra, India. Rotary Club organises a free medical camp for the poor and needy. India's leading Micro and plastic surgeons visit the medical camp and provide free medical service.
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  • The doctor explains the infections caused by ear-rings at the local hospital in Chalisgaon, Maharashtra, India. Rotary Club organises a free medical camp for the poor and needy. India's leading Micro and plastic surgeons visit the medical camp and provide free medical service.
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  • A patient with infections caused by ear-rings waits to see the visiting corrective surgeon at the local hospital in Chalisgaon, Maharashtra, India. Rotary Club organises a free medical camp for the poor and needy. India's leading Micro and plastic surgeons visit the medical camp and provide free medical service.
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  • 35 year old, Bhila Bikram Patil shows his hand to the visiting doctors at the local hospital in Chalisgaon, Maharashtra, India. Bhila has come for corrective surgery as his hands are disfigured after he tried committing suicide by immolating himself when he lost his job at the Mumbai Airport. Rotary Club organises a free medical camp for the poor and needy. India's leading Micro and plastic surgeons visit the medical camp and provide free medical service.
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  • 35 year old, Bhila Bikram Patil (centre) visits the visiting doctors at the local hospital in Chalisgaon, Maharashtra, India. Bhila has come for corrective surgery as his hands are disfigured after he tried committing suicide by immolating himself when he lost his job at the Mumbai Airport. Rotary Club organises a free medical camp for the poor and needy. India's leading Micro and plastic surgeons visit the medical camp and provide free medical service.
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  • Hand micro surgeon, Dr. Pankaj Jindal examines an x-ray at the local hospital in Chalisgaon, Maharashtra, India. Rotary Club organises a free medical camp for the poor and needy. India's leading Micro and plastic surgeons visit the medical camp and provide free medical service.
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  • A teenage girl looks at her cousin as he explains her medical problem to the visiting doctor at the local hospital in Chalisgaon, Maharashtra, India. Rotary Club organises a free medical camp for the poor and needy. India's leading Micro and plastic surgeons visit the medical camp and provide free medical service.
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  • Corrective Surgeon, Dr. Shanker Subramanium examines the face of a teenage girl at the local hospital in Chalisgaon, Maharashtra, India. Rotary Club organises a free medical camp for the poor and needy. India's leading Micro and plastic surgeons visit the medical camp and provide free medical service.
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  • A patient with hand contracture is seen consulting the visiting doctor at the local hospital in Chalisgaon, Maharashtra, India. Rotary Club organises a free medical camp for the poor and needy. India's leading Micro and plastic surgeons visit the medical camp and provide free medical service.
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  • Hand Micro surgeon, Dr. Pankaj Jindal examines the hand at the local hospital in Chalisgaon, Maharashtra, India. Rotary Club organises a free medical camp for the poor and needy. India's leading Micro and plastic surgeons visit the medical camp and provide free medical service.
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  • Dr. Shanker Subramanium (left) checks a young girl with cleft lip at the local hospital in Chalisgaon, Maharashtra, India. Rotary Club organises a free medical camp for the poor and needy. India's leading Micro and plastic surgeons visit the medical camp and provide free medical service.
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  • Patients check their names on the list as they wait to see the visiting doctors in the local hospital in Chalisgaon, Maharashtra, India. Rotary Club organises a free medical camp for the poor and needy. India's leading Micro and plastic surgeons visit the medical camp and provide free medical service.
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  • Pregnant women share a lighter moment while they wait to meet the doctors during the OPD in Duncan Hospital in Raxaul of East Champaran district of Bihar, India. Photograph: Sanjit Das/Panos for Legatum Foundation
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  • Patients and their family members wait to meet the doctors during the OPD hours in Duncan Hospital in Raxaul of East Champaran district of Bihar, India. Photograph: Sanjit Das/Panos for Legatum Foundation
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  • Pregnant women wait to meet the doctors during the OPD in Duncan Hospital in Raxaul of East Champaran district of Bihar, India. Photograph: Sanjit Das/Panos for Legatum Foundation
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  • Pregnant women wait to meet the doctors during the OPD in Duncan Hospital in Raxaul of East Champaran district of Bihar, India. Photograph: Sanjit Das/Panos for Legatum Foundation
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  • Pregnant women wait to meet the doctors during the OPD in Duncan Hospital in Raxaul of East Champaran district of Bihar, India. Photograph: Sanjit Das/Panos for Legatum Foundation
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  • A woman is seen sleeping outside the maternity ward of Duncan Hospital in Raxaul of East Champaran district of Bihar, India. Photograph: Sanjit Das/Panos for Legatum Foundation
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  • Pregnant women are seen in the maternity ward of Duncan Hospital in Raxaul of East Champaran district of Bihar, India. Since 2008 the Foundation and Geneva Global have been investing in the training of medical staff to improve the lives of people living in 600+ villages in the region. The NGOs are delivering cost effective interventions to address treatment, care and prevention of diseases, disability and preventable deaths amongst infants, adolescent girls and women of child-bearing age. There is statistical and anecdotal evidence that there have been vast improvements and a total of 40-50% increased immunization for all children under 6 has meant that communities can be serviced and educated long term. Photograph: Sanjit Das/Panos for Legatum Foundation
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  • 20 year Ramita Devi, one of the pregnant women is seen resting in the maternity ward of Duncan Hospital in Raxaul of East Champaran district of Bihar, India. Since 2008 the Foundation and Geneva Global have been investing in the training of medical staff to improve the lives of people living in 600+ villages in the region. The NGOs are delivering cost effective interventions to address treatment, care and prevention of diseases, disability and preventable deaths amongst infants, adolescent girls and women of child-bearing age. There is statistical and anecdotal evidence that there have been vast improvements and a total of 40-50% increased immunization for all children under 6 has meant that communities can be serviced and educated long term. Photograph: Sanjit Das/Panos for Legatum Foundation
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  • 20 year Sunita Devi, one of the pregnant women is seen in the maternity ward of Duncan Hospital in Raxaul of East Champaran district of Bihar, India. Since 2008 the Foundation and Geneva Global have been investing in the training of medical staff to improve the lives of people living in 600+ villages in the region. The NGOs are delivering cost effective interventions to address treatment, care and prevention of diseases, disability and preventable deaths amongst infants, adolescent girls and women of child-bearing age. There is statistical and anecdotal evidence that there have been vast improvements and a total of 40-50% increased immunization for all children under 6 has meant that communities can be serviced and educated long term. Photograph: Sanjit Das/Panos for Legatum Foundation
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  • Nurses are seen giving medical care to the new born babies in the nursery of Duncan Hospital in Raxaul of East Champaran district of Bihar, India. Since 2008 the Foundation and Geneva Global have been investing in the training of medical staff to improve the lives of people living in 600+ villages in the region. The NGOs are delivering cost effective interventions to address treatment, care and prevention of diseases, disability and preventable deaths amongst infants, adolescent girls and women of child-bearing age. There is statistical and anecdotal evidence that there have been vast improvements and a total of 40-50% increased immunization for all children under 6 has meant that communities can be serviced and educated long term. Photograph: Sanjit Das/Panos for Legatum Foundation
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  • A mother reacts and covers her child's face as a nurse injects a BCG into the arm of her infant in immunization ward of Duncan Hospital in Raxaul of East Champaran district of Bihar, India. Since 2008 the Foundation and Geneva Global have been investing in the training of medical staff to improve the lives of people living in 600+ villages in the region. The NGOs are delivering cost effective interventions to address treatment, care and prevention of diseases, disability and preventable deaths amongst infants, adolescent girls and women of child-bearing age. There is statistical and anecdotal evidence that there have been vast improvements and a total of 40-50% increased immunization for all children under 6 has meant that communities can be serviced and educated long term. Photograph: Sanjit Das/Panos for Legatum Foundation
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  • Patients are seen waiting for doctors for surgery at the local hospital in Chalisgaon, Maharashtra, India. Rotary Club organises a free medical camp for the poor and needy. India's leading Micro and plastic surgeons visit the medical camp and provide free medical service.
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  • 35 year old Sonawani suffered with burn contractures after the kerosene stove burst in her kitchen. She travelled from Nandgaon, 25 kms to visit the corrective surgeons at the local hospital in Chalisgaon, Maharashtra, India. Rotary Club organises a free medical camp for the poor and needy. India's leading Micro and plastic surgeons visit the medical camp and provide free medical service.
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  • Patients and their family members sleep on the floor while they wait to meet the doctors during the OPD hours in Duncan Hospital in Raxaul of East Champaran district of Bihar, India. Photograph: Sanjit Das/Panos for Legatum Foundation
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  • Patients and their family members wait outside the pharmacy in Duncan Hospital in Raxaul of East Champaran district of Bihar, India. Photograph: Sanjit Das/Panos for Legatum Foundation
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  • Pregnant women wait to meet the doctors during the OPD in Duncan Hospital in Raxaul of East Champaran district of Bihar, India. Photograph: Sanjit Das/Panos for Legatum Foundation
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  • Pregnant women wait to meet the doctors during the OPD in Duncan Hospital in Raxaul of East Champaran district of Bihar, India. Photograph: Sanjit Das/Panos for Legatum Foundation
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  • Pregnant women wait to meet the doctors during the OPD in Duncan Hospital in Raxaul of East Champaran district of Bihar, India. Photograph: Sanjit Das/Panos for Legatum Foundation
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  • Severely malnourished, 1 year old, Mubaraq seen getting treatment inside the stabilization ward of the GIZ Main Hospital in the Dadaab refugee camp in northeastern Kenya. Hundreds of thousands of refugees are fleeing lands in Somalia due to severe drought and arriving in what has become the world's largest refugee camp. Photo: Sanjit Das/Panos
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  • Government nurses (2nd and 3rd from right) undergoing training look over the shoulder of a surgeon who operates a caesarean section on a woman at the operation theatre in Duncan Hospital in Raxaul of East Champaran district of Bihar, India. Since 2008 the Foundation and Geneva Global have been investing in the training of medical staff to improve the lives of people living in 600+ villages in the region. The NGOs are delivering cost effective interventions to address treatment, care and prevention of diseases, disability and preventable deaths amongst infants, adolescent girls and women of child-bearing age. There is statistical and anecdotal evidence that there have been vast improvements and a total of 40-50% increased immunization for all children under 6 has meant that communities can be serviced and educated long term. Photograph: Sanjit Das/Panos for Legatum Foundation
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  • patients and family members wait outside the ward in Duncan Hospital in Raxaul of East Champaran district of Bihar, India. Since 2008 the Foundation and Geneva Global have been investing in the training of medical staff to improve the lives of people living in 600+ villages in the region. The NGOs are delivering cost effective interventions to address treatment, care and prevention of diseases, disability and preventable deaths amongst infants, adolescent girls and women of child-bearing age. There is statistical and anecdotal evidence that there have been vast improvements and a total of 40-50% increased immunization for all children under 6 has meant that communities can be serviced and educated long term. Photograph: Sanjit Das/Panos for Legatum Foundation
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  • Mothers seen with their children in the pediatrics ward of Duncan Hospital in Raxaul of East Champaran district of Bihar, India. Since 2008 the Foundation and Geneva Global have been investing in the training of medical staff to improve the lives of people living in 600+ villages in the region. The NGOs are delivering cost effective interventions to address treatment, care and prevention of diseases, disability and preventable deaths amongst infants, adolescent girls and women of child-bearing age. There is statistical and anecdotal evidence that there have been vast improvements and a total of 40-50% increased immunization for all children under 6 has meant that communities can be serviced and educated long term. Photograph: Sanjit Das/Panos for Legatum Foundation
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  • Women sit around and wait for doctors to visit their new born babies in pediatrics ward of Duncan Hospital in Raxaul of East Champaran district of Bihar, India. Since 2008 the Foundation and Geneva Global have been investing in the training of medical staff to improve the lives of people living in 600+ villages in the region. The NGOs are delivering cost effective interventions to address treatment, care and prevention of diseases, disability and preventable deaths amongst infants, adolescent girls and women of child-bearing age. There is statistical and anecdotal evidence that there have been vast improvements and a total of 40-50% increased immunization for all children under 6 has meant that communities can be serviced and educated long term. Photograph: Sanjit Das/Panos for Legatum Foundation
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  • Family member gather around the patient in the pediatrics ward of Duncan Hospital in Raxaul of East Champaran district of Bihar, India. Since 2008 the Foundation and Geneva Global have been investing in the training of medical staff to improve the lives of people living in 600+ villages in the region. The NGOs are delivering cost effective interventions to address treatment, care and prevention of diseases, disability and preventable deaths amongst infants, adolescent girls and women of child-bearing age. There is statistical and anecdotal evidence that there have been vast improvements and a total of 40-50% increased immunization for all children under 6 has meant that communities can be serviced and educated long term. Photograph: Sanjit Das/Panos for Legatum Foundation
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  • Patients are seen waiting for doctors for post surgery consultancy at the local hospital in Chalisgaon, Maharashtra, India. Rotary Club organises a free medical camp for the poor and needy. India's leading Micro and plastic surgeons visit the medical camp and provide free medical service.
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  • Patients are seen waiting for doctors for post surgery consultancy at the local hospital in Chalisgaon, Maharashtra, India. Rotary Club organises a free medical camp for the poor and needy. India's leading Micro and plastic surgeons visit the medical camp and provide free medical service.
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  • Washerman (locally known as Dhobis) iron the laundry from hospital at the Laundromat in Dhobighat in India's financial capital, Mumbai, India.
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  • The nurse checks on of the pregnant women in the maternity ward of Duncan Hospital in Raxaul of East Champaran district of Bihar, India. Since 2008 the Foundation and Geneva Global have been investing in the training of medical staff to improve the lives of people living in 600+ villages in the region. The NGOs are delivering cost effective interventions to address treatment, care and prevention of diseases, disability and preventable deaths amongst infants, adolescent girls and women of child-bearing age. There is statistical and anecdotal evidence that there have been vast improvements and a total of 40-50% increased immunization for all children under 6 has meant that communities can be serviced and educated long term. Photograph: Sanjit Das/Panos for Legatum Foundation
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  • Pregnant women wait to meet the doctors during the OPD in Duncan Hospital in Raxaul of East Champaran district of Bihar, India. Photograph: Sanjit Das/Panos for Legatum Foundation
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  • Government nurse (right) undergoing training look over the shoulder of a surgeon who operates a caesarean section on a woman at the operation theatre in Duncan Hospital in Raxaul of East Champaran district of Bihar, India. Since 2008 the Foundation and Geneva Global have been investing in the training of medical staff to improve the lives of people living in 600+ villages in the region. The NGOs are delivering cost effective interventions to address treatment, care and prevention of diseases, disability and preventable deaths amongst infants, adolescent girls and women of child-bearing age. There is statistical and anecdotal evidence that there have been vast improvements and a total of 40-50% increased immunization for all children under 6 has meant that communities can be serviced and educated long term. Photograph: Sanjit Das/Panos for Legatum Foundation
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  • A woman sits next to her new born grandson in pediatrics ward of Duncan Hospital in Raxaul of East Champaran district of Bihar, India. Since 2008 the Foundation and Geneva Global have been investing in the training of medical staff to improve the lives of people living in 600+ villages in the region. The NGOs are delivering cost effective interventions to address treatment, care and prevention of diseases, disability and preventable deaths amongst infants, adolescent girls and women of child-bearing age. There is statistical and anecdotal evidence that there have been vast improvements and a total of 40-50% increased immunization for all children under 6 has meant that communities can be serviced and educated long term. Photograph: Sanjit Das/Panos for Legatum Foundation
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  • Relatives of the new born babies share a light moment in pediatrics ward of Duncan Hospital in Raxaul of East Champaran district of Bihar, India. Since 2008 the Foundation and Geneva Global have been investing in the training of medical staff to improve the lives of people living in 600+ villages in the region. The NGOs are delivering cost effective interventions to address treatment, care and prevention of diseases, disability and preventable deaths amongst infants, adolescent girls and women of child-bearing age. There is statistical and anecdotal evidence that there have been vast improvements and a total of 40-50% increased immunization for all children under 6 has meant that communities can be serviced and educated long term. Photograph: Sanjit Das/Panos for Legatum Foundation
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  • Family members of the patients seen in the pediatrics ward of Duncan Hospital in Raxaul of East Champaran district of Bihar, India. Since 2008 the Foundation and Geneva Global have been investing in the training of medical staff to improve the lives of people living in 600+ villages in the region. The NGOs are delivering cost effective interventions to address treatment, care and prevention of diseases, disability and preventable deaths amongst infants, adolescent girls and women of child-bearing age. There is statistical and anecdotal evidence that there have been vast improvements and a total of 40-50% increased immunization for all children under 6 has meant that communities can be serviced and educated long term. Photograph: Sanjit Das/Panos for Legatum Foundation
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  • A woman is seen taking care of an infant in the pediatrics ward of Duncan Hospital in Raxaul of East Champaran district of Bihar, India. Since 2008 the Foundation and Geneva Global have been investing in the training of medical staff to improve the lives of people living in 600+ villages in the region. The NGOs are delivering cost effective interventions to address treatment, care and prevention of diseases, disability and preventable deaths amongst infants, adolescent girls and women of child-bearing age. There is statistical and anecdotal evidence that there have been vast improvements and a total of 40-50% increased immunization for all children under 6 has meant that communities can be serviced and educated long term. Photograph: Sanjit Das/Panos for Legatum Foundation
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  • An infant seen in the pediatrics ward of Duncan Hospital in Raxaul of East Champaran district of Bihar, India. Since 2008 the Foundation and Geneva Global have been investing in the training of medical staff to improve the lives of people living in 600+ villages in the region. The NGOs are delivering cost effective interventions to address treatment, care and prevention of diseases, disability and preventable deaths amongst infants, adolescent girls and women of child-bearing age. There is statistical and anecdotal evidence that there have been vast improvements and a total of 40-50% increased immunization for all children under 6 has meant that communities can be serviced and educated long term. Photograph: Sanjit Das/Panos for Legatum Foundation
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  • Patients and their family members wait out the district hospital of Dibrugarh in Assam, India. Photo: Sanjit Das
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  • A patient with Tuberculosis waits to see the doctor at the local hospital in Chalisgaon, Maharashtra, India.
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  • A patient with Tuberculosis waits to see the doctor at the local hospital in Chalisgaon, Maharashtra, India.
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  • A tired suregon, Dr. Subramanium after a long operation.
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  • An attendant walks past a patient as she lies on the stretcher outside the Operation Theatre of the Narayana Hrudayalaya in Bangalore, Karnataka, India. Photo: Sanjit Das/Panos
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  • A nurse feeds through a tube to 6 month old Baby Kaushik sleeps at the Intensive Therapy Unit of the Pediatric Section of the Narayana Hrudayalaya in Bangalore, Karnataka, India. Dr. Shetty conducted an open heart surgery on the child a day before. Photo: Sanjit Das/Panos
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  • Dr. Devi Prasad Shetty (right) stops to take a phone call as he enters the Operation theatre at the Narayana Hrudayalaya in Bangalore, Karnataka, India. Photo: Sanjit Das/Panos
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  • Family members of the patients seen waiting in the waiting lounge of the Narayana Hrudayalaya in Bangalore, Karnataka, India. Photo: Sanjit Das/Panos
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  • A Sri Lankan woman (name withheld on request) poses for a photo with her child and the CHDR- Child Health Development Record Card (immunization/vaccination card) in the Ministry of Health office in Tharmapuram Village in Kilonochchi, Sri Lanka.  Photo: Sanjit Das/Panos
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  • A Sri Lankan woman (name withheld on request) poses for a photo with the CHDR- Child Health Development Record Card (immunization/vaccination card) in the Ministry of Health office in Tharmapuram Village in Kilonochchi, Sri Lanka.  Photo: Sanjit Das/Panos
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  • A Sri Lankan woman (name withheld on request) poses for a photo with her child and the CHDR- Child Health Development Record Card (immunization/vaccination card) in the Ministry of Health office in Tharmapuram Village in Kilonochchi, Sri Lanka.  Photo: Sanjit Das/Panos
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  • A Sri Lankan woman (name withheld on request) poses for a photo with the CHDR- Child Health Development Record Card (immunization/vaccination card) in the Ministry of Health office in Tharmapuram Village in Kilonochchi, Sri Lanka.  Photo: Sanjit Das/Panos
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  • Sri Lankan woman poses for  photo with their child and the CHDR- Child Health Development Record Card (immunization/vaccination card) in the Ministry of Health office in Tharmapuram Village in Kilonochchi, Sri Lanka.  Photo: Sanjit Das/Panos
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  • A Sri Lankan woman (name with held on request) poses for a photo and the CHDR- Child Health Development Record Card (immunization/vaccination card) in the Ministry of Health office in Tharmapuram Village in Kilonochchi, Sri Lanka.  Photo: Sanjit Das/Panos
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  • 36 year old Rasenthiram Sasikala poses for  photo with her children and the CHDR- Child Health Development Record Card (immunization/vaccination card) in Punaineeravi Village in Kilonochchi, Sri Lanka.  Photo: Sanjit Das/Panos
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  • Malnourished children with their mothers are seen at the Nutrition Rehabilitation Centre (NRC) in Khaknar block of Burhanpur district in Madhya Pradesh, India. Photo: Sanjit Das/Panos for ACF
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  • Malnourished children with their mothers are seen at the Nutrition Rehabilitation Centre (NRC) in Khaknar block of Burhanpur district in Madhya Pradesh, India. Photo: Sanjit Das/Panos for ACF
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  • 58 year old heart surgeon, Dr. Devi Prasad Shetty poses for a photo in his office at the Narayana Hrudayalaya in Bangalore, Karnataka, India. Photo: Sanjit Das/Panos
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