Health & Sanitation

Aster Volunteers, the global CSR arm of Aster DM Healthcare has signed an MoU with Al Shifa Multispecialty Hospital in New Delhi to help set up a 50-bed field hospital to meet the increasing shortage of hospital beds for Covid-19 patients. The CSR initiative is aimed at supporting patients who are financially disadvantaged and yet...

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. has announced an additional $10 million (Rs 74 crores) commitment to support relief and recovery efforts in India, as the country experiences a surge in COVID-19 cases and deaths. “Since the onset of the pandemic, our firm has been focused on how we can help communities around the world, including...

In keeping with its commitment towards the COVID-19 relief efforts, Hero MotoCorp Ltd has rapidly expanded its initiatives across the country. Under the company's CSR platform 'Hero WeCare', Hero MotoCorp has partnered with the Ramakrishna Mission Sevashrama, Kankhal (RMSK) at Haridwar in Uttarakhand for strengthening their healthcare system and response to Covid-19. Hero MotoCorp is...

Ketan Deshpande and Santosh Huralikoppi from FUEL Trust (www.fuelfornation.com) have started a fundraiser to place an order for 50 oxygen concentrators and COVID-related emergency supplies. India is facing huge challenges due to Covid Pandemic and many are succumbing to this deadly virus due to the lack of availability of oxygen cylinders and other medical supplies. We...

World Malaria Day today 2021 brings with it a ray of hope for eradicating the disease. The first malaria vaccine to show more than 75% efficacy has been developed by scientists at the University of Oxford, according to The Lancet journal. This is a medical breakthrough and crosses the goal specified by the World...

The second wave of Covid-19 is claiming more lives, and Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has urged the private sector for support in this emergency. Not only are government and private hospitals running out of beds, oxygen and medical personnel, they are turning critically ill patients away. In this scenario, the Ministry of Corporate Affairs...

Supporting the Government’s COVID-19 vaccination programme, the CSR arm of Ambuja Cement, ACF has facilitated in vaccinating over 75,000 beneficiaries in Phase-2 of the national immunisation drive, including almost 70,000 at-risk community members, 621 frontline workers and staff of ACF. The Government of India rolled out the phase-wise COVID-19 vaccination programme in January 2021 to...

The Young Health Programme (YHP) is vaccine maker AstraZeneca's global community investment initiative focused on non-communicable disease (NCD) prevention, delivered in partnership with Plan International and informed by research from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. YHP aims to reduce the uptake of unhealthy behaviours in young people to improve their health outcomes...

The second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic has been much more damaging for India than the first one. The virus is much more fatal and the numbers are growing at a very rapid pace. The healthcare systems have crashed, for there is a shortage of beds and oxygen supply. The doctors across the country are...

Take the test, Stop the spread, Save Morbi. This is what Orpat Group believes in, and has taken the initiative of organizing a Free COVID-19 Rapid Test Camp for 10 Days starting from 18th April 2021. The group will also distribute free medicines to the people in need. In these trying times, testing is the need...

With average daily cases of COVID-19 rising again since last one month, the demand for oxygen has significantly risen. In fact, in most parts of the country, the cases are hitting a new peak, thereby disrupting the demand-supply scenario for medical oxygen. Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL), the second-largest Indian oil marketing company, will be...

Celebrating the holy month of Ramadan and Navratri, Hamdard Laboratories (Medicine Division) conducted a CSR activity with ‘Mann Ka Tilak’, a private old age home located in New Delhi, and offered free health checkups to the resident senior citizens. They stationed a medical team in the premises of Mann Ka Tilak to conduct the...