Health & Sanitation

WOCKHARDT Foundation reached a milestone achievement of adding the 100^thMobile 1000 health van, to its rapidly expanding healthcare services. The latest van will ply in Vaijapur village in Aurangabad. Launched in 2007, Wockhardt Foundation’s ISO 9001:2008 approved Mobile 1000 programme has been successfully administering high quality, free, primary healthcare services to growing number...

The Mumbai Traffic Police, in association with RADHEE Disaster and Education Foundation and Shriram Transport Finance Company Ltd has started an initiative “Give Way for Ambulance” to generate awareness among people. The event was addressed by Joint Commissioner of Police Traffic – Dr. B. K. Upadhyay, Additional Commissioner of Police Traffic – Mr. Quaiser Khalid, Founder...

The Cigna Foundation has announced a $100,000 World of Difference grant to Samahope – a crowdfunding platform that allows anyone, anywhere to directly fund the work of doctors providing life-saving medical treatments for women and children in need around the world.  The grant exemplifies Cigna’s new global brand platform, “Together, all the way,” as...

INFRASTRUCTURE multi-national Larsen & Toubro has announced a wp initiative that would add traction to the ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’ programme recently launched by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Independence Day. Observing that the objectives of L&T’s ongoing wp programme were aligned to the mission of ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’, A.M. Naik, Group Executive Chairman, Larsen...

ALLCARGO Logistics, through its NGO Avvashya Foundation, has inaugurated the Leprosy Elimination Action Project (LEAP) at Koproli Primary Health Centre (PHC). The project was launched with a vision to support the people of Koproli who are victims of leprosy along with helping them in their economical development. Association for Leprosy Education, Rehabilitation & Treatment...

THE Coca-Cola Company and its Foundations, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have announced the expansion of ‘Project Last Mile’ to include 10 African countries over the next five years. This public-private partnership – currently focused on Tanzania...

THE Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) has launched the ‘Mumbai Mission for TB Control’ awareness campaign, with Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan as the brand ambassador. At an event to launch the campaign, Bachchan made the revelation of having suffered from tuberculosis in 2000, saying, “I have been a victim of this disease in spite...

Chennai-based TAKE Solutions has made a CSR contribution to the Centre for Innovation, Incubation & Entrepreneurship (CIIE), the Technology Business Incubator of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad for seed investment in an early stage healthcare based impact company. The joint selection committee of CIIE and TAKE solutions chose Gurgaon-based start-up Bodhi Health...

Entomophagy, for the uninitiated, is the practice of eating insects. And if the growing ‘buzz’ around ‘bug food’ is to be believed, it may well be an addition to our diet that is worth serious consideration both in terms of health benefits and a possible solution to FAO’s ominous Global famine forecast.

PITTSBURGH: Global technology leader and Infosys co-founder Senapathy “Kris” Gopalakrishnan has donated $1.8 million (Rs. 225 crore) to Carnegie Mellon University to establish a research partnership between CMU and the Centre for Brain Research (CBR) at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bangalore. The partnership will strategically leverage the research strengths of both institutions while enhancing...