Ensuring access to comprehensive eyecare services
Project: RISE
Objective: Demonstrate a comprehensive population based eyecare model to prevent avoidable blindness, including screening, diagnosis, treatment, and vision rehabilitation services for Maheswaram Vision Center of Telangana State.
Expected beneficiaries: 50,000
Partners: Hyderabad Eye Institute and LV Prasad Eye Institute
Education and screening program for diabetes and hypertension
Project: ACT
Objective: Increase awareness on prevention of Hypertension & Diabetes and encourage lifestyle changes to reduce the risk of NCDs, conduct community-based screening to identify high risk individuals and create referral system for treatment and management of NCDs in Dhenkanal District of Orissa.
Expected beneficiaries: >100,000
Partner: Project Concern International
Strengthening PHC ecosystem for managing NCDs
Project: IMPACT NCD
Objective: Improve the Capacity of Health Systems and Community for Non-Communicable Disease (NCD) Screening, Management and Follow-up, and Multi-Sectoral Action to prevent NCD in Chamarajanagar District of Karnataka.
Expected beneficiaries: >200,000
Partners: Health and Family Welfare Department and Government of Karnataka and Institute of Public Health
Bringing diagnosis to our tribal communities
Project: AadiCare
Objective: Improve access to diagnostic and treatment services in the tribal area of Chhota Udaipur District, Gujarat through the container-based Healthcare Model.
Expected beneficiaries: >100,000
Partners: District Health Society, Chhota Udaipur, and Shroffs Foundation Trust
Create skilled and employable youth
Project: Skilling for Better Health and Living
Objective: Skill-building of youths from socially and financially challenged sections in healthcare from Haryana, Noida, Lucknow, and Patna to enhance employability and meet the demand for an allied health workforce.
Expected beneficiaries: 325
Partner: ApolloMedSkills
Screening program for Diabetes, Hypertension, Oral cancer, Cervical cancer, Breast cancer and Vision problems
Project: NCD Care on Wheels
Objective: Improve access to systematic NCD screening, referral, and linkages services in two blocks of Kamrup Rural district of Assam by conducting community screening and health education sessions.
Expected beneficiaries: >35,000
Partner: Jivika Healthcare
Smart classrooms for Tribal Children
Project: E-Vidhya
Objective: Creating Instructional Learning Experience using Tata ClassEdge Solution for Tribal Children to Improve Learning Outcome.
Expected Beneficiaries: >2,500
Partners: Ramakrishna Mission, Jhargram and Tata ClassEdge
O2 Plant at COVID care center, Bengaluru
Project: Oxygen Plant for Saving Lives
Impact: An Oxygen plant was set up in partnership with Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) in Bengaluru, Karnataka, to fight the pandemic COVID-19.
Partner: Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike, Bengaluru
Modular Healthcare Facility to combat COVID-19
Project: MediCAB Healthcare Facility
Impact: A 20-bedded modular health facility was set up on the premises of Vivekananda Memorial Hospital (VMH) in Heggadadevanakote Taluk of Mysore District of Karnataka, to fight COVID-19.
In the past, VMH Hospital was also supported to provide quality, affordable healthcare to tribal and rural populations in a phased manner, benefiting 8,977 patients (58% tribal and 42% rural).
Partner: Swami Vivekananda Youth Movement
Computer literacy for slum and rural children
Project: Saksham
Impact: Five computer labs were set up in remedial schools in Assam and the slums of Delhi to promote functional knowledge of computers and enable digital learning for children and youth. Nearly 250 children and youths benefited.
Partner: Bosconet (Don Bosco)
Create skilled and employable youth
Project: Skilling for Better Health and Living
Impact: Skill imparted to 250 youth in health sector belonging to socially and economically weaker section of the society from Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, and Ranchi and 97% of which were employed.
Partners: Apollo Hospitals Educational and Research Foundation and ApolloMedSkills
Access to blood transfusion services for thalassemia patients
Project: Blood transfusion for Thalassemia;
Impact: Blood transfusion services offered to nearly 500 underprivileged and poor Thalassemic children at Manipal hospital transfusion center in Bangalore, Karnataka in a phased manner.
Partner: Manipal Foundation
Rehabilitating people with spinal cord injuries
Project: INSPIRE
Impact: Facilitated the creation of India's first Integrated Spinal Rehabilitation Centre (INSPIRE) in Thiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu, to provide individualized, holistic treatment programme for persons with Spinal Cord injuries. 26 patients received rehabilitation support at the centre in the second phase.
Partner: Soulfree
Predicting outbreak of vector borne diseases
Project: SARTHI
Impact: Social Analytics for Rapid Transformation in Health for India (‘SARTHI) a digital platform developed using social insights to enhance the national disease surveillance initiative. It aims to provide strategic technical support to the Government of India on the prevention and control of vector-borne diseases such as Malaria, Dengue, and Chikungunya.
Partners: Centre for Health Research and Innovation and Institution of Engineering and Technology
Ensuring access to primary eyecare services
Project: Sight for Life
Impact: A Vision Center was set up in the Siwan District of Bihar to improve access to primary eye care services and prevent avoidable blindness. It has also created employment opportunities to women trained as optometrist. More than 3,600 community members accessed eye care services.
Partner: Akhand Jyoti Eye Hospital
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