Health Care
Jaypee group tries to relieve poverty by providing free primary health care to all the resident villagers who live in and around the surrounding areas of the Jaypee cement complexes and various project sites.
Nearly 65,000 to 70,000 people get free medical care at these centres in a year. The group has set up hospitals and dispensaries to help the poor villagers in availing a free medical treatment. The hospital also has an ambulance service for the villagers round the clock.
Medical Facilities
The free medical facilities given at these hospitals and dispensaries include the following
- Free Consultancy
- Free Medicine
- BQ Camp
- ECG
- X-Ray
- Lab Facilities
The group employs resident doctors and nurses to attend to these facilities. Besides running up of the hospitals various other health initiatives are also undertaken to help the villagers.All
the services are provided free of cost on continued
basis (122736 village cases treated till date.)
Medical Camps
The group on a year round basis conducts year round medical camps. Some of which are:
- Pulse Polio camps
These camps are being conducted in conjunction with Govt. Agency. Every year around 4000 children are administered polio drops at the various villages around the cement complexes.83
camps till date & 37600 children were given pulse polio drops.
- Jachaa Bachaa camps
Started from the year 1985 and it has been done on continuous basis.
Till date 44 camps have been organized & 20843 cases treated.
- Health Checkup of Village Children
These camps are held during the year to have a general health check up of the children.
38 such camps till date & 3754 children have been examined.
- Health & Hygiene Awareness Camps
Through these camps a regular interaction with villagers by way of lecture / demo by co-opting Govt Health Workers is undertaken Topics for interaction range from:
- Eradication of Malaria
- House hold remedies for insect bites
- Control of House Fly
- Waste disposal
- Pre-natal & post natal care
- Vaccination & its importance
Health care initiatives help these people living in the villages to avail medical facilities which in other cases would be a financial drain on their already meager resources.
Mobile Medical Van (with Lab
and other diagnostic facilities)
- Rewa/Satna : Diagnosis and medicine
distribution free of cost (4361 villagers) .
- Greater Noida: Surrounding 12 villages , the
no. of beneficiares 16,202 villagers.
- Solan & Billaspur (H.P) : 4 villages covered,
500 villagers so far benefited
- Kutch (Gujarat): 10 villages covered, 2890
villagers benefited
Note: All the figures said above are for the year
2007 and are subject to change.
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