KOA Healthcare Network

Objectives

• Create a database of community healthcare professionals in USA that would render second opinion to community members.
• Identify key projects that could benefit our community and KOA in long run.

History

• Since 1989 KOA started getting letters from Kashmiri Pandits (KPs), mostly
  from Jammu refugee camps, asking for financial help to treat their seriously
  ill relatives. The illnesses ranged from the damaged kidneys needing
  replacement, cancer, heart disease, diabetes, asthma to severe depression.
  In most of the cases the treatment was going to be provided outside
  Jammu, as the illnesses could not get appropriate treatment by the Jammu
  medical establishment.
• 2002, KOA thought that a better way to run this program was to have a
  dedicated committee run it in an organized way. In 2003, the KOA Medical
  Fund, as the committee was called, was established PROGRAM
  OPERATION
• An applicant asking for the Medical Fund assistance, or someone filling the
  application on his behalf (for some stated reason), has to go through
  KMECT in India.