Indian Oil Corporationâs (IndianOil) Rural Mobile Health Technique (Sachal Swasthya Seva), launched as part of its corporate social responsibility (CSR) agenda, was formally inaugurated on all-India basis today by Shri S Jaipal Reddy, Honâble Minister for Petroleum & Natural Gas, Government of India at Nagaram Village in Maheswaram Mandal of Ranga Reddy District. Smt. P. Sabitha Indra Reddy, Honâble Minister for Home & Jails, Fire Services, Government of Andhra Pradesh, was the Visitor of Honour.
IndianOilâs novel primary health care initiative will chiefly focus on villages around its Kisan Seva Kendra (KSK) outlets, which are primarily low-cost petrol & diesel stations set up in rural areas. A network of 40 mobile medical units (MMU), stationed each at a KSK outlet, will extend free health check-up and free medicines to the villagers in the areas. Each MMU team will comprise a registered qualified doctor (MBBS), a pharmacist (D.Pharama), a community mobiliser and a driver. Dr. Huzaifa Khorakiwala, CEO & Inspiration, Wockhardt Foundation said, â Our partnership with IndianOil provides us with a like-minded partner to provide mobile healthcare solutions across Andhra Pradesh. Over the next year, they aim to further expand this programme across other states of the country.â
Each MMU team will visit to villages per day over a six-day week, and will cover all the designated villages in their respective areas one time a week on a fixed day and at a fixed time intimated locally. Being implemented with support from Wockhardt Foundation, the technique will even be utilised for health awareness programmes and knowledge, schooling and communication campaigns on relatives planning, health & hygiene, HIV/AIDS, etc.
Addressing the gathering after formally launching the rural mobile health care technique, Shri Jaipal Reddy complimented IndianOil for its noble initiative in taking primary healthcare to the doorsteps of the villagers in areas where primary medicare facilities need further augmentation. They said that IndianOilâs Kisan Seva Kendra (KSK) outlets â over four,000 of them are already operating across the country â are not only reaching precious petroleum fuels closest to the customers in the rural hinterland but are also acting as one-stop convenience shops for farmers and villages by stocking items of every day use. By focussing on over 600 villages around 40 select KSK outlets in ten districts of the State, the mobile medicare technique will be of immense benefit to the rural population in availing of free health check-up and medicines by qualified doctors and pharmacists at their doorstep, they added.
IndianOilâs novel primary health care initiative will chiefly focus on villages around its Kisan Seva Kendra (KSK) outlets, which are primarily low-cost petrol & diesel stations set up in rural areas. A network of 40 mobile medical units (MMU), stationed each at a KSK outlet, will extend free health check-up and free medicines to the villagers in the areas. Each MMU team will comprise a registered qualified doctor (MBBS), a pharmacist (D.Pharama), a community mobiliser and a driver. Dr. Huzaifa Khorakiwala, CEO & Inspiration, Wockhardt Foundation said, â Our partnership with IndianOil provides us with a like-minded partner to provide mobile healthcare solutions across Andhra Pradesh. Over the next year, they aim to further expand this programme across other states of the country.â
Each MMU team will visit to villages per day over a six-day week, and will cover all the designated villages in their respective areas one time a week on a fixed day and at a fixed time intimated locally. Being implemented with support from Wockhardt Foundation, the technique will even be utilised for health awareness programmes and knowledge, schooling and communication campaigns on relatives planning, health & hygiene, HIV/AIDS, etc.
Addressing the gathering after formally launching the rural mobile health care technique, Shri Jaipal Reddy complimented IndianOil for its noble initiative in taking primary healthcare to the doorsteps of the villagers in areas where primary medicare facilities need further augmentation. They said that IndianOilâs Kisan Seva Kendra (KSK) outlets â over four,000 of them are already operating across the country â are not only reaching precious petroleum fuels closest to the customers in the rural hinterland but are also acting as one-stop convenience shops for farmers and villages by stocking items of every day use. By focussing on over 600 villages around 40 select KSK outlets in ten districts of the State, the mobile medicare technique will be of immense benefit to the rural population in availing of free health check-up and medicines by qualified doctors and pharmacists at their doorstep, they added.
