Picture: People visit ‘Clinic on Wheels’, the mobile medical clinic
KOCHI: Chief executive officer of Niti Ayog Amitabh Kant has flagged off Clinic on Wheels, the mobile medical clinic launched by Ernakulam Karayogam with the corporate social responsibility support of BPCL-Kochi Refinery, to render quality healthcare services to marginalized sections of the society.
The function, which was held virtually, was attended by Arun K Singh, acting & designate chairman, BPCL Ltd, and Sanjay Khanna, executive director, BPCL-Kochi Refinery, the other day.
The state-of-the-art medical facility has been conceived to offer consultancy services of doctors, to conduct clinical tests and supply of medicines to people who are living in the remote areas of Ernakulam.
Lakshmi Hospital, Ernakulam, has been roped in as the medical partner for the project.
The mobile van will be deployed in each area as per the instructions from BPCL. With an ambient consultation space, the facilities in the van include a well-equipped lab with major diagnostic facilities, medicine dispensation area, providing diagnostic care of blood, glucose, pregnancy testing, cancer detection and so on.
To begin with, the clinic will be deployed for Covid vaccination in rural and coastal areas.
For the time being, the services of the clinic will be confined to Ernakulam and there are plans to extend the facility to Alappuzha and Thrissur.
“The rolling out of the clinic has added a new dimension in our charity initiatives as we are serving the society for more than nine decades” said Karayogam general secretary P Ramachandran.
“We are pursuing a new project called ‘child home for girls’ in association with the district child welfare committee by constructing a few houses in the land owned by Ernakulam Karayogam at Thrikkadappilli near Cherai. Each house will accommodate five children and a foster mother to take care of them,” Karayogam officials said.
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