Hope for People is requesting ____________ to install solar power on

the campus of Subbamma Mission Hospital in order to obtain a

reliable source of energy in rural India where power cuts occur
regularly.
Subbamma Mission Hospital by Hope for People (International?) is
located in Moripodu and serves the surrounding rural villages in Andra
Pradesh, India. The hospital was a grassroots project started in 1965
by a woman in the community named Subbamma. Subbamma was
married off as a child bride at the age of 6 to a man who was 20 years
her elder. As an underprivileged woman of the Untouchables caste,
she saw the great needs of her village. Mortality rate during that time
was very high, so she learned to be a midwife to serve the local
women. Throughout the years, the hut in which the babies were ___
delivered became overpopulated. As generations continued, her
grandson Dr. Solomon Darwin turned this hut into a hospital serving
the surrounding 30 villages, ___ each village containing 3,000-4,000
people.
Maternal death is still a serious problem in rural India. According to
D.C. Duttas Textbook of Obstetrics by Hiralal Konar (not italics),
There are about 600,000 maternal deaths throughout the globe each
year, of which 99% occur in the developing world. The Subbamma
Mission Hospital specializes in ObGyn, but also offers general health
care and dentistry to serve the area. This is the only facility within the
area offering emergency Caesarean sections at low cost ___.
Power cuts in rural India occurs regularly due to the unequal demand
of growing Indian cities, political turmoil, and the lack of natural
resources. The hospital is currently reliant on a generator to supply
electricity during these power cuts. This generator runs on diesel,
which is another unreliable source of energy, and is the highest item
on the operating cost. According to Bloomberg, India has suffered a
power deficit since at least 1984. The persisting India energy crisis
has been interfering with the hospital by interrupting surgeries and
damaging expensive medical equipment_. By switching to solar

power, the hospital will finally run on a reliable and sustainable source
of energy.