Community Health
Community involvement and collaborations are cornerstones of public health action. Human health in its broadest sense of physical, mental and spiritual well being is to a great extent dependent on the access of the citizen to a healthy environment. We at Vedanta recognize the importance of health in the socio- economic development and the efficacious role we can play in improving the quality of life of the people. Our approach is both curative and preventive with a resolve to institutionalize positive behaviour towards health in the communities. We partner with various Government & Non Government agencies in implementing National health programs for communicable and non communicable diseases.
Total sanitation concept, safe drinking water and immunization are the key initiatives under our preventive approach. Behavioral change of a million people on the issue of HIV AIDS has been a key driver in our African operations. Our calendared mobile health clinics and awareness camps go a long way in preventing outbreak of diseases in the communities for deeper penetration; and our, health posts render primary health services in remote tribal places. For children in the age segment of 3-6 years, the group has a focused national program with the aim to reach a million children by 2010. This program is in collaboration with ICSD and has the support from the community youth to ensure the sustainability after the phase out stage.
Our group operates 18 hospitals and health posts extending health services to over four million people. This includes health care, diagnostic and treatment services. Regular features of our special health camps include, eye cataract, artificial limbs and family planning surgeries. Under sectoral intervention this year we included cancer detection through Vedanta mobile cancer vans in our curative care portfolio. The group is also in the process of establishing 350 bed Vedanta Cancer Hospital and Vedanta Heart Care Hospitals through public private partnership model.