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Dr Imran Malek
Trustee & Director – Admin & Planning
Dr. Imran is public health professional with more than 15 years of experience. He has experience of working in…

Dr Imran Malek
Trustee & Director – Admin & Planning
Dr. Imran is public health professional with more than 15 years of experience. He has experience of working in…
- Phone:+91 9909421142
- Email:nihalmalek@gmail.com

Dr Hariprakash Hadial
Trustee & Program Director
Dr. Hariprakash is Program Director Health to the Niramay working on various projects. Dr. Hariprakash has exp…

Dr Hariprakash Hadial
Trustee & Program Director
Dr. Hariprakash is Program Director Health to the Niramay working on various projects. Dr. Hariprakash has experience of working in maternal, child health and nutrition for more than a decade. He has worked with Health Dept, Govt of Gujarat, Ministry of H & FW, UNICEF and Nutritional International. He has contributed to more than 10 state and national guidelines. He has played pivotal role in roll out of SNCU and midwifery program in Gujarat. Dr Hariprakash has experience of writing fundraising proposals, report, and documents for more than a decade. He is working for project implementation and process documentation at Niramay.
Hariprakash has contributed to following guidelines and papers
- Operational Guidelines for Midwifery Units in Gujrat published by Department of Health & Family Welfare, Government of Gujarat, January 2022. Contributed to overall review and edit of the guidelines.
- Guidelines on Midwifery Services in India 2018. Maternal Health Division, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, New Delhi, December 2018 Guidelines for Dietary Norms for JSSK program. Maternal Health Division, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, New Delhi, June 2018.
- Diagnosis and Management of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: Technical and Operational Guidelines. Maternal Health Division, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, New Delhi, February, 2018
- LaQshya: Labour Room Quality Improvement Initiative National Guidelines. Maternal Health Division, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, New Delhi, December 2017
- Operational guidelines for Obstetric ICUs and HDUs. Maternal Health Division, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, New Delhi, December 2017
- CAC Training and services delivery guidelines. Maternal Health Division, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, New Delhi, December 2018
- Anaemia Mukt Bharat , Reproductive and Child Health Division, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, New Delhi, November 2019
- Essential Newborn Care. Child Health division, Government of Gujarat and Nutrition International, 2017.
Research Paper and Editorials :
- Malnourished Millions – Are We Doing Enough Ratnu A, Hadial H. Malnourished Millions – Are We Doing Enough? Healthline2022;13(3):195-200
- Nicholson James, Kellar Lisa, Dar Abdullah, Hadial Hariprakash, Cheng Yonne, Caughey Aaron The Active Management of risk in pregnancy at term(AMOR-IPAT) Cost effectiveness study. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Volume 204(1), Jan 1 2011,
- Phone:+9109925360081
- Email:hrponline@gmail.com

Dr Apurva Ratnu
Managing Trustee & Managing Director
Dr. Apurva Ratnu is a public health professional with more than decade in MCH program. Dr. Apurva has served w…

Dr Apurva Ratnu
Managing Trustee & Managing Director
Dr Apurva Ratnu
Managing Trustee & Managing Director
Dr. Apurva Ratnu is a public health professional with more than decade in MCH program. Dr. Apurva has served with Gujarat state health department, UNICEF India, USAID supported project and with the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India. Dr. Apurva has contributed towards development of 9 national guidelines on MCH including JSSK dietary norms guidelines. Dr. Apurva is working as director to the Niramay trust. Dr Apurva has experience of conducting qualitative and quantitative research over last decade. He will be guiding research, methodology, and analysis of for the project.
Dr Apurva has contributed to following Publications
NATIONAL TECHNICAL GUIDELINES:
- Operational Guidelines for Midwifery Units in Gujarat. Departmet of Health and Family Welfare, Government of Gujarat, Gandhinagar, 2022.
- Guidelines on Midwifery Services in India 2018. Maternal Health Division, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, New Delhi, December 2018.
- LaQshya National Guidelines for running Six Rapid Improvement Cycles. Maternal Health Division, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, New Delhi, September 2018.
- Guidelines for Dietary Norms for JSSK program. Maternal Health Division, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, New Delhi, June 2018.
- Operational Guidelines for Swachh Swastha Sarvatra. Ministry of Health & Family Welfare & Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation, New Delhi, March 2018.
- Diagnosis and Management of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: Technical and Operational Guidelines. Maternal Health Division, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, New Delhi, February, 2018.
- LaQshya: Labour Room Quality Improvement Initiative National Guidelines. Maternal Health Division, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, New Delhi, December 2017.
- Operational guidelines for Obstetric ICUs and HDUs. Maternal Health Division, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, New Delhi, December 2017.
- National Maternal Death Surveillance and Response (MDSR) guidelines. Maternal Health Division, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, New Delhi, July 2017.
- National Guidelines on Obstetric ICU and HDUs. Maternal Health Division, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, New Delhi, April 2016.
- Gadhvi G, Bhavasar H, Rathod D, Khepatwal R, Desai V, a Saha S, Qureshi A, Ratnu A. Management of Severe Acute Malnutrition in Day care settings: Findings from innovative Public Private Partnership in Devbhumi Dwarka District, Gujarat. Healthline. 2022; 13(4):328-333.
- Ratnu A, Hadial H. Malnourished Millions – Are We Doing Enough? Healthline 2022;13(3): 195-200
- Soni J, Sheikh F, Umallawala T M, et al. (August 17, 2022) Bal Poshan Yojana: A Novel Approach to Facility-Based Severe Acute Malnutrition Management. Cureus 14(8): e28124. DOI 10.7759/cureus.28124
- Vaghasia NK, Verma R, Ratnu A. Using SOFA Score to Predict Mortality Among Patients Admitted in Obstetric ICU at Tertiary Care Institution in India. Indian J Obstet Gynecol. 2019;7(4 part-II):594-599
- Chudasama RK, Kadri AM, Ratnu A, Jain M & Kamariya CP. Magnitude of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus, Its Influencing factors and Diagnostic Accuracy of Capillary Blood Testing for its Detection at a Tertiary Care Centre, Rajkot, Gujarat. Indian J Community Med 2019; 44:142-6.
- Tayade S, Ganagne N, Shivkumar P, Baswal D, Ratnu A, Bhushan H & Kore J. Role of Obstetric High Dependency and Intensive Care Unit in Improving Pregnancy Outcome and Reducing Maternal Mortality – A study in Central Rural India. Int J Crit Care Emerg Med 4:055.
- Parmar J, Ratnu AN, Sutariya S, Tripathi D, Ashtagi G, Angolkar M: Knowledge and awareness regarding HIV/AIDS prevention, diagnosis & treatment among pregnant women of Belagavi city, Karnataka, India. Health line. 2016; 7(2): 111-115.
- Ratnu AN, Dholakia NB, Vadalia B, Boghani S, Pathan AA. Improving Public Institutional Deliveries: Skilled Birth Attendant training to AYUSH doctors in Gujarat. Health line. 2016; 7(1): 13-18.
- Patel JJ, Dave PV, Srinath S, Kumar A, Shah A, Ananthakrishnan R, Ratnu AN. Pre- treatment sputum smear grade and smear positivity during follow-up of tuberculosis patients in Ahmedabad, India. Public Health Action. 2013; 3(4): 308- 310.
- Ratnu AN. Impact assessment of health inequalities: a comparison of five districts in India. The Lancet: 2013; 381. S124.
- Ratnu AN. Prevalence of under nutrition in 0-5 year children of Junagadh District, Gujarat. Trivandrum, Achutha Menon Centre for Health Science Studies, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Working Paper no. 5, 2013.
- Ratnu AN. Creating world’s largest health insurance Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY): An Indo German perspective. Global health – Transnational health networks. Bielefeld, Germany. January 2013.
- Phone:+91 9727763862
- Email:drapurvaratnu@gmail.com