Health & Sanitation

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...

The Akhil Bhartiya Gramin Uthan Samiti (ABGUS) is a voluntary civil society organization working in various areas of social welfare. ABGUS, with CSR support of Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL) has inaugurated a Water Management Project in village Dhingi of block Nabha in district Patiala, Punjab. This wastewater management project was aimed to recycle the wastewater...

ELGi Compressors Europe, a subsidiary of Elgi Equipments Limited, had the opportunity to support the Italian Red Cross with an urgent compressed air requirement. In line with ELGi’s CSR approach, ELGi Europe responded swiftly and comprehensively with a charitable contribution of an air compressor package for one of Italy’s Red Cross logistic hubs serving...

The pandemic has changed many minds about contemporary allopathic medicine. People across the world are switching to complementary medicine such as Homeopathy, Ayurveda and Unani medicines. Homeopathy has been documented to be effective in global pandemics in the past, including the deadly 1918 Spanish Flu and the Cuban epidemic. Doctors who included homeopathic treatment...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called for a ‘Tika Utsav’ aka vaccine festival next week. As India struggles through the second deadly wave of COVID-19, Modi asked all the state (and union territories) chief ministers in a virtual meeting to hold a Tika Utsav from April 11-14. This implies that come Sunday, the vaccination...

Being born into poverty puts one at a disadvantage in life. Sickness makes matters worse for the patient as well as the family that is already struggling with making ends meet. Having one sick family member can burden the entire family emotionally, financially and mentally. There are hundreds of government schemes for poverty alleviation...

FMCG direct selling company Amway India celebrated World Health Day with a national webinar on building a better tomorrow with a focus on nutrition in children. Organized in association with its NGO partner SRF Foundation, the virtual platform brought together policy experts, subject-matter experts, and industry leaders to discuss current challenges and opportunities in...

Just buying a term insurance plan is not enough. You should have a clear understanding of the same and what all it covers. You can go for an online term plan to provide financial coverage to your family and avoid a financial crunch in your absence. Though, when you buy a term plan with...