CSR

CSR Campaign – It is interesting to note that Healthcare in India is a $160 billion industry where 74% of total spending is private. We trail in most global indicators: e.g., we have 1.3 beds per thousand as against a global average of 2.6 and a WHO guideline of 3.5; we have 1.7 trained doctors and nurses per thousand against WHO guideline of 2.5; we spend only 4% of our GDP on healthcare as against 5.7% for low and middle-income countries! Thus, keeping these stats and figures in mind, there lies the immense scope for CSR projects addressing the healthcare issues of the country.

IMAPH has been running a CSR campaign – ‘Preventive Screening Drive via Mobile Health Clinic’ with due deliberation and reaching out to people from different strata of society through varied channels. The ‘Mobile Health Screening Clinic’ has been moving to different hospitals, community centers, PSUs, and urban slums to spread awareness around ‘Preventive Health’, which is a pressing need for a country like India, where the preventive care culture is almost negligible.

The health impact in terms of awareness amongst the population towards preventive health through this initiative seems to bring drastic transformation to the healthcare landscape of India. The continued screening drive is supposed to bring awareness to such an extent that Indians will be able to seize the surge of NCDs. This is just a promising beginning for a long-term health impact. This drive has provided preventive screening services to nearly 4205 individuals in 36 locations, mostly in slum areas so far.