Ensuring the health and safety of employees and community is an integral part of the Tata Steel Vision and healthcare issues have always been given high priority. In Odisha, as in other states in which the Company has operations, efforts of Tata Steel Rural Development Society (TSRDS) and the Tata Steel Family Initiatives Foundation (TSFIF) cover the rural and peri-urban population through basic health care amenities. Both these social welfare units of the Company have been building capacity through training programmes to create community based health care partners as well as grass-root volunteers.
The innumerable healthcare initiatives taken by Tata Steel in Odisha consist of infrastructure development, improvement measures and enhancement of facilities as well as projects that are undertaken with specific objectives. Initiatives in this direction include:
Hospitals in Joda, Sukinda, Belpahar, Belaipada and Bamnipal
The first phase, called Aastha1 was completed in three years in the panchayats of Purusattampur Block in 07-08. The second phase was undertaken by TSRDS in Gopalpur in four panchayats of Hinjilicut rural block in April 2008.The goal of the project is to improve the health status of the poor rural community by providing quality primary health care services with its focus on RCH services to achieve population stabilisation. TSRDS’ lady doctor has been conducting an RCH clinic in all 8 villages of the project every month where 786 antenatal and 238 postnatal clients were checked in 2008-09. The 3rd dose of immunisation was also completed for 308 babies.
This was initiated in collaboration with the Odisha State AIDS Control Society, Bhubneshwar, in December 2006 and since then about 700 HIV/AIDS patients have been treated. The ‘Sathi Community Care Centre’ is located at Ganjam, one of the most vulnerable districts in India as far as AIDS affliction is concerned.
The Lifeline Express, the world's first hospital on rails, caters to inaccessible rural areas where medical services are not available. Using the Indian Railway Network, it is equipped with a modern operation theatre that offers diagnostic, medical and surgical treatment for prevention and curative interventions for the physically challenged patients as well. It was brought to the villages of Odisha on six occasions to provide medical services to the rural population.
There have been thousands of villagers from the districts of Keonjhar, Bhadrak, Dhenkanal, Jajpur and Cuttack who have visited the Lifeline Express for free medication. Innumerable patients have got their checkups done here, of which, many have been referred for further treatment. Medical aid and appliances were provided to those patients who needed them. Not only this, in the recent most occasion, one of the patients also got her deformity in leg treated at the Lifeline Express. The success of the Lifeline Express is evident not only from the response of the people of Odisha, but also from the accolades and appreciation that it has received from official circles.
Tata Steel has taken several measures including the use of low cost toilets in order to improve the condition of health and sanitation in the villages of Odisha. TSRDS in collaboration with District Water and Sanitation Mission could convert four Gram Panchayats to ‘Nirmal Gram’ with villages having 100% covered- toilets, one of which has been through its Jamadoba unit (the rest are through Jamshedpur.
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The first phase, called Aastha1 was completed in three years in the panchayats of Purusattampur Block in 07-08. The second phase was undertaken by TSRDS in Gopalpur in four panchayats of Hinjilicut rural block in April 2008.The goal of the project is to improve the health status of the poor rural community by providing quality primary health care services with its focus on RCH services to achieve population stabilisation. TSRDS’ lady doctor has been conducting an RCH clinic in all 8 villages of the project every month where 786 antenatal and 238 postnatal clients were checked in 2008-09. The 3rd dose of immunisation was also completed for 308 babies.
This was initiated in collaboration with the Odisha State AIDS Control Society, Bhubneshwar, in December 2006 and since then about 700 HIV/AIDS patients have been treated. The ‘Sathi Community Care Centre’ is located at Ganjam, one of the most vulnerable districts in India as far as AIDS affliction is concerned.
The Lifeline Express, the world's first hospital on rails, caters to inaccessible rural areas where medical services are not available. Using the Indian Railway Network, it is equipped with a modern operation theatre that offers diagnostic, medical and surgical treatment for prevention and curative interventions for the physically challenged patients as well. It was brought to the villages of Odisha on six occasions to provide medical services to the rural population.
Tata Steel has taken several measures including the use of low cost toilets in order to improve the condition of health and sanitation in the villages of Odisha. TSRDS in collaboration with District Water and Sanitation Mission could convert four Gram Panchayats to ‘Nirmal Gram’ with villages having 100% covered- toilets, one of which has been through its Jamadoba unit (the rest are through Jamshedpur.