Jorhat, Jan. 11: Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC) today launched a mobile medical unit to provide basic essential healthcare to the doorstep of the people residing in the remote Assam-Nagaland border areas in Golaghat district.
The project, Varisthajana Swasthya Sewa Abhijan, is a part of the ONGC's corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiative and will be available in the company's operational areas in Sarupathar and Borholla. HelpAge India is the collaborator and implementing agency in ONGC's gesture towards stakeholders and society. The unit was launched at the company's Cinnamara complex here.
Another such medical unit launched by the ONGC earlier has been rendering services to the needy in and around the company's operational areas in Assam and Assam Arakan basin, Jorhat and Jorhat Asset for the past five to six years.
An ONGC official said the mobile medical unit crew, comprising a doctor, a staff nurse and a counsellor, would visit three to four villages per day and function six days a week for providing healthcare facilities in the rural areas.
The medical unit's basic services include free medical consultation, free medicines, basic diagnostics, home care visits for bed-ridden elderly, conducting health camps, gynaecology care, child health services, eye check-up and referral to cataract care to prevent blindness, health education and awareness, referral with local health providers, counselling for patients, elders, family members and caretakers, among others.
"Such an initiative by the ONGC will provide free treatment and required medicines to the needy people," the official said.
The medical unit has GPS tracking system for better monitoring.
M. Ayyadurai, executive-basin manager, Assam & Assam Arakan basin, while interacting with the crew of the medical unit, advised them to take up the job dedicatedly and sincerely to serve needy people.
"Around 850-900 patients are every month offered a range of medical services in the rural areas, a move that has been widely appreciated by the local people. With the deployment of the additional unit, the ONGC hopes to reach to a greater section of needy people in society," the official said.
