Affordable Healthcare

When their driver stepped off the vehicle to open the gates of their home, a speeding car rammed into their vehicle, severely injuring Meera and Ashwini who were in the backseat.

Today, he not only feeding over 700 underprivileged cancer patients and their relatives food but also helping them get free medicines and accommodation in a city like Mumbai.

Today Anchal and Netram Eye Foundation have reached conducted over 150 camps, with a turnout of at least 200-250 people in each. This number easily reaches over 60,000. Till date, the young ophthalmologist has also conducted over 5000 pro-bono or charity cataract surgeries.

This 76-year-old former nurse at Safdarjung hospital before dying expressed her wish to donate her organs, including her skin, to her family.

Rattled by the fact that his treatment had come to an abrupt halt due to the lack of Rs 25 lakh, netizens, helped raise the full amount, yes Rs 25 lakh in less than 24 hours!

This low-cost life saving device only requires the administrator to power it up in less than 12 seconds by rotating a small hand paddle. While the price of electricity powered defibrillators at airports and hospitals are skyrocketing, this made-in-India defibrillator costs less than a quarter of the same amount.

Promoting and making such innovative projects accessible to the Base of the Pyramid (BoP) population, NASSCOM Social Innovation Forum (NSIF), a ‘Tech for Good’ platform, is bridging the gap and fostering inclusive growth.

An apex institute under the Ministry of AYUSH (Department of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopath), the idea is to facilitate synergy between the traditional wisdom of Ayurveda and modern diagnostic tools and technology.

On an average, the distance takes over 90 minutes to cover owing to the traffic. But when the police, public and local television channels joined hands, the ambulance carrying the child reached the airport in less than 26 minutes.

Under the first phase, the clinics will be set up at major stations like Andheri, Churchgate, Mumbai Central and Bandra, and will slowly expand to all 24 stations on the Western Railway line.