Satyam Foundation: Health Care Forum

North Star Statement

To ensure easy access to primary and secondary healthcare for slum dwellers by providing support services at four urban health posts by March 2006 and continuing until April 2009.

Service Offerings

• Provide primary healthcare for the urban poor
• Provide healthcare related to non-communicable diseases.
• Provide awareness and education about primary healthcare, the importance of hygiene, and preventive measures

The Forum has adopted four urban health posts in Hyderabad—at Bhoiguda, Karwan, Aman Nagar, and Parvati Nagar. Each UHP covers more than 50,000 people, 15,000 of whom live in slums. On average, a doctors sees 45 to 50 patients in each clinic.

Blood Donation Drives

Satyam conducted blood donation drives at several locations. In Hyderabad, Satyamites donated 369 units of blood to the Indian Red Cross Society. The beneficiaries were 500 Thalesimia children.

The Red Cross Society recognizes Satyam Foundation as the largest corporate blood donor. In the last quarter, Satyam employees have given 722 units of blood.

Launching of Health Information Help Line 1056 ( HIHL)

Health check-up camp

The government of Andhra Pradesh has recognized Satyam Foundation as the agency to establish and operate an HIHL call center for the state—the first of its kind in Asia. GOAP has signed an MOU with Satyam Foundation to operate the services around the clock. The toll-free number, 1056, has been allotted to HIHL, and is accessible from all phones.

Moreover, a biometric solution has been adopted at a UHP for patient registration, doctor prescription, and maintenance of patient history.

ATTAC (Arogyam through Targeted Action Campaign)

Blood donation camp

The Forum conducted a pilot awareness campaign program in the old city of Hyderabad with volunteers from NSS, Satyam, and COVA. This campaign reduced mosquito breeding, thus preventing chikunguniya, a disease spread by the same mosquitoes that carry dengue fever. The team also created awareness about the disease, and dispensed medicine for it. More than 15,000 houses were covered in the project.

On Dec. 17, our Bhubaneshwar chapter organized a health checkup camp in the Primary Health Center, IRC Village, Nayapalli, in collaboration with Age Care Associates, an NGO working for senior citizens. Ten doctors from various fields checked more than 220 people, who were given necessary medicines. Free blood sugar and ECG checkups were done.

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