The backbone of a society is healthy populace who are both physically and mentally fit. Since its inception, Jindal Foundation has been carrying out need based health interventions which are not only curative, but also preventive in nature. Jindal Foundation provides a comprehensive range of services to benefit communities ensuring that its stakeholders are productive in their workplaces and safe everywhere. Our care is accessible to all. We are an active investor in healthcare, which is a pillar of our social responsibility programme.
We work towards better health outcomes through a number of initiatives designed to create and enhance health services and spread awareness about public health programmes. The Foundation believes that good health should be a right rather than a privilege for all people. Where appropriate, we partner with government authorities in our efforts to improve access to quality health and immunization facilities. We are involved in making available safe, potable drinking water and in activities aimed at population stabilization; combating HIV/AIDS and managing the interests of the differently abled.
Good Health and Well Being is identified as one of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations (Goal 3). At the Jindal Foundation, efforts are put in to make good health affordable and accessible to the local communities and the society at large. As part of this, the Foundation has been establishing multiple charitable clinics, hospitals and providing world-class health facilities to the local communities.
Our efforts at contributing to the health and physical and mental well-being of the local communities and surrounding areas that they affect are well-aligned to the United Nations Sustainable and Millennium Development Goals, the National Health Plan as outlined by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. Each of our Health Programme(s) is designed to address the typical health needs in the tribal predominant area and interior rural area. The Health Programmes are thus capsulized taking in to account the need of safe drinking water, sanitation, incidences of vector borne disease, prevalent anemia, Malnutrition, Infant Mortality Rate, Maternal Mortality Rate, Mobile Medical Vans, Tele Medicine Centres and setting up of State of the Art Super Speciality Hospitals.
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OP Jindal Hospital & Research Centre located in Raigarh, Chhattisgarh is a 100 bedded state-of-art tertiary care hospital established on 7th August, 2008 commissioned with an aim of providing a depth of expertise in the complete spectrum of advance medical and surgical care equipped with high end facilities. The hospital is dedicated to provide competitive, accessible and affordable world class healthcare services to poor and weaker sections of the society and the community in and around Raigarh.One other 27 bedded OP Jindal Hospital is located in Tamnar. Over the decade, the hospitals have catered to more than 9 Lakh patients from in and around the communities. Subsidized specialized services are made available to patients depending on the criticality of disease and economic condition of patients as per certain prescribed criteria through free treatment scheme supported by Jindal Foundation. The hospital entered into a management contract with Fortis Healthcare Ltd. (India) known for tertiary care on 15th November, 2010.
Mission- To be a leading healthcare organization known for Distinctive patient care, following highest standards of medical ethics, creating a positive impact on communities that we treat.
Vision- To save & enrich lives people through quality healthcare, delivered by team of competent professionals.
Core Values - Patient Centricity, People, and Integrity, Ownership, Team Work, Dignity & Respect.
OP Jindal Hospital & Research Centre located in Raigarh, Chhattisgarh is a 100 bedded state-of-art tertiary care hospital was established on 7th August, 2008 commissioned with an aim of providing a depth of expertise in the complete spectrum of advance medical and surgical care equipped with high end facilities. The hospital is dedicated to provide competitive, accessible and affordable world class healthcare services to poor and weaker sections of the society and the community in and around Raigarh. The hospital entered into a management contract with Fortis Healthcare Ltd. (India) known for tertiary care on 15th November, 2010.
Fortis O.P. Jindal Hospital and Research Centre is a Multi-Super Speciality Hospital with much emphasis on Cardiac Sciences, Ortho/Joint Replacement , Arthroscopy & Trauma, Intensive & Critical Care, Laparoscopic & General Surgery, Renal Sciences, Spine & Neuro Sciences, Maternal and Child Care, Eye Care, ENT, Physiotherapy & Rehabilitation, Dentistry and Maxillofacial Surgery, Internal Medicine & Dietetics. The hospital has a faculty of highly experienced physicians & surgeons who provide treatment across specialties. It provides special emphasis to critical care which is crucial to patients’ recovery through advanced dedicated ICUs for all specialties. The hospital has allocated 30% of its total bed strength to Critical care beds to facilitate delivery of quality medical care.
O P Jindal hospital Tamnar formally known as Fortis O P Jindal Hospital is a 27 bedded hospital. It is a secondary care hospital which serves as a spoke for FOPJHRC Raigarh with respect to tertiary care. Both the facilities at Raigarh and Tamnar cater to the critical medical needs of the communities primarily from 5 adjoining districts of Chhatisgarh (Jashpur, Ambikapur, Janjgir Champa, Raigarh) and Odisha (Jharsuguda).
Over the decade, the hospitals have catered to more than 9 Lakh patients from in and around the communities. Subsidized specialized services are made available to patients depending on the criticality of disease and economic condition of patients as per certain prescribed criteria’s through free treatment scheme supported by Jindal Foundation.
provide the best and on time treatment care facility to the needy and underprivileged families through Fortis O P Jindal Hospital and Research Centre. Critical cases from the local district hospital and medical college, all nursing homes and clinics are also often referred to FOPJHRC in critical medical conditions. BPL (Below Poverty Line) card holders are offered free OPD services. The location of hospital is very well within the reach of the people living in JHARSUGDA ODISHA and MCL ODISHA as it is the only nearest super specialty Health care facility.
The hospital also has 24 hours emergency and trauma services with well-equipped 3 major operation theatres, 1 eye operation theatre, 1 siemens flat panel Cath lab, 1 minor operation theatre, 1 labor room and fully equipped ICU facilities like - Cardiac ICU, Medical ICU, Surgical ICU, Burn ICU, Neonatal ICU, Dialysis unit & Blood bank with SDP facility and 24 hrs Pathology, Radiology services with 64 slice CT scan facility.
The hospital is empanelled by the Chhattisgarh State Government for their employees as well as for all various state government schemes for BPL card holders such as Ayushman Bharat Yojna, Mukhyamantri Sanjeevani Sahayta Kosh Yojna, Chirayu Yojna etc and also empanelled with various PSUs like Coal India Ltd, NTPC, SECR, CSPDCL, ESIC, all TPAs and the private corporates of surrounding area.
In addition to the above mentioned facilities, the Hospital has 6 Ambulances - 1 ACLS (Cardiac Life Support System) and 5 other Ambulances equipped with all the necessary equipment’s.
The hospitals are registered under the Chhattisgarh State Upcharyagriha Tetha Rogopchar Sambandhi Sthapanaye Anugyapan Adhiniyam 2010. The Hospital is well equipped with facilities (ICU, Ventilators, Oxygen, and Isolation Centres etc.) to treat the Covid 19 affected patients.
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Project Vatsalya aims to reduce Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) and Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) by means of educating and sensitising the entire local population regarding the services related to Ante Natal Care (ANC) and Post Natal Care (PNC). It encompasses raising awareness and facilitating family planning, use of contraceptives for achieving population stabilization, increasing institutional delivery, safe motherhood, early childcare intervention, combating malnutrition, adolescent health care and sanitation awareness. Over 7.2 Lakh, mothers and children have been benefitted through this activity. The activity has expanded to over 2000 villages in Odisha, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand.
This programme was first implemented in the Tamnar region of Chhattisgarh and Jereldaburu region of Jharkhand with aim to reduce Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) and Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) by means of educating the entire local population regarding the services related to Ante Natal Care (ANC) and Post Natal Care (PNC). In addition, this programme encompasses raising awareness and facilitating family planning and the use of contraceptives for achieving population stabilization, increasing institutional delivery, safe motherhood, early childcare intervention, combating malnutrition, adolescent health care and sanitation awareness. The programme commenced in 2010 with 30 village-based women called 'Swasthaya Sanginis' and has now expanded to 61 villages in due collaboration with the government departments like ICDS, Health Department and likeminded NGOs.
The project is now implemented in three States; Tamnar & Raigarh in Chhattisgarh, Jeraldaburu in Jharkhand and Tensa in Odisha covering a total 61 villages. The target beneficiaries of the programme are pregnant women, children from 0 to 14 years, nursing mothers, eligible couples & adolescent girls.
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Kishori express is a unique programme which reaches out to villages and schools to address the problems of anemia in adolescent girls and women. Operating in collaboration with ICDS and Health Departments, the Kishori express, is operational in 3 States in customised mobile vans, plying in scheduled locations. The project has so far benefitted more than 7.5 lakhs adolescent girls. The project is now implemented in 1260+ villages of Odisha, Jharkhand and Haryana.
Kishori Express is an anemia control programme amongst the adolescent girls, implemented across 537 villages of Banarpal & Angul blocks in Angul district of Odisha, 87 villages of Punhana block of Nuh district of State Haryana (under the GOI's Aspiration District Programme launched by Hon. Prime Minister), 15 villages of Patratu block of Ramgarh district in State Jharkhand. The programme was rolled in April 2011 in Chendipada block and replicated at Banarpal block of Angul in 2012 in Odisha.
3 customized vans are operating in the locations equipped with a giant Screen running quiz on personal hygiene and life skill, digital haemometer, Sanitary napkin, Iron Centric Seed kit and brochures on awareness on anemia, potential hazards of low hemoglobin, prevention measures and the importance on Pink health of adolescent girls to control IMR and MMR. The Programme is running in close collaboration with the respective State Govt. / Dist Administration. The ASHA / Anganwadi workers have been providing IFA tablets to severe anemic girls and helping in medical treatment of girls having secondary causes of low hemoglobin.
As part of the awareness campaign associated with the Kishori express, interactive sessions with young girls on health, diet, nutrition, hygiene awareness and anaemia control are done. Besides hb testing, sensitization programmes through counselling video shows, hygiene awareness and practice and use of sanitary napkins ensured for the young girls.
By promoting the use of sanitary napkins, there is a direct impact on women's reproductive health through safe personal hygiene practices. Low cost sanitary napkins are provided to young girls and women and health quizzes through the giant screen inside the mobile van helps young girls in schools and women in villages to be aware of several health topics.
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Menstrual health and hygiene remain a significant concern among underprivileged women and girls across the nation. To some extent, lack of access to proper sanitation, affordable menstrual products, and adequate education contribute to this issue. Poor menstrual hygiene management can lead to health problems, social stigma, and even exclusion from daily activities. Addressing this problem requires a multifaceted approach, including improving infrastructure, providing affordable and eco-friendly menstrual products like sanitary napkin, and implementing comprehensive menstrual health and hygiene education to empower women and girls.
The production of low-cost sanitary napkins aims to provide affordable and accessible menstrual hygiene solutions for women, particularly those in underprivileged communities. This can be achieved through the utilization of locally available, cost-effective materials, and innovative manufacturing techniques. By reducing production costs, these sanitary napkins can be made available at a lower price point, ensuring that more women have access to essential menstrual health products. Jindal Foundation aims to provide affordable and accessible sanitary napkins through efficient production and distribution methods. By implementing cost-effective processes and collaborating with local communities, the Foundation work towards making menstrual hygiene products available to women in need, preventing RTI of the women and girls from neighbouring community and promoting their health and well-being. Such initiative changed perceptions of women above 40 towards use of sanitary napkin usage.
Under this initiative Jindal Foundation has been providing free sanitary napkins to 1 million underprivileged women and girls from 3000+ villages, of Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Haryana, and Delhi to ensure their access to hygienic menstrual care. Jindal Foundation also has facilitated the underprivileged women and girls in producing and marketing of Low-Cost sanitary napkin, addressed as Shubhangi. Through such approach, over 1 Cr revenue generated by rural women, through the social business model of producing low-cost sanitary napkins and made them economically empowered. This initiative helps break the cycle of poverty and empowers these individuals by addressing a basic need, ultimately contributing to a more equitable and inclusive society.
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Malnutrition among underprivileged children is a significant concern that requires immediate attention. This issue not only affects the physical growth and development of small children between 5 years of age but also hampers their cognitive abilities and overall well-being. Addressing malnutrition in underprivileged children demands multi-faceted approaches, including improving access to nutritious food, ensuring proper healthcare facilities, and raising awareness about the importance of a balanced diet. By working together, we can create a healthier and more equitable society where every child has the opportunity to thrive.
The project Chiranjeevi for combating malnutrition in children through nutritional support primarily focuses on providing essential nutrients and balanced meals to undernourished kids. This initiative of Jindal Foundation, involves collaboration with local communities, schools, ICDS and health centres to ensure regular monitoring and follow-up of the children's nutritional and BMI status. Additionally, the program aims to educate caregivers and parents about proper nutrition, hygiene, and the importance of a healthy diet for overall growth and development of the children. By addressing the root causes of malnutrition and empowering communities with knowledge, this program strives to create a sustainable impact on the lives of over 2500 malnourished children from 202 villages. In addition to it, the project has been benefitted over 42,000 children through regular growth monitoring.
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Sneh aims at eradication of hunger among the children of age group of 3-6 yrs through awareness generation for child care, mothers counseling , nutrition supplementation and periodic health check-up. Access to adequate and nutritious food is ensured to the target children in convergence with ICDS, different organizations. The programme has been benefitting more than 1500 families, 4000 children and 250 senior citizens.
To combat malnutrition Jindal Foundation is providing nutrition support to underprivileged and vulnerable children and senior citizens. This initiative is carried out at Angul, Barbil, Raigarh & Tamnar benefitting more than 5000 families. Access to adequate and nutritious food is ensured to the target children in convergence with ICDS, different organizations like Adruta Home, Adivasi Vikas Samiti in Serenda & Rawa Academy.
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The rural community healthcare services, also known as Tele-medicine Centres or E-Health Centres(e-hc) cater to the health and medical issues of the local community. The centres provide advance health services to the community and outreach health services from super specialists for the referral patient to reduce mortality and morbidity, patients receive free diagnosis and medicines at the Tele- medicine centres across the 7 locations.Every year the e-hc's serves around 25000 people.
To provide advanced health services to community and outreach health services from super specialists so as to reduce mortality and morbidity, patients need free diagnosis and medicines. At Telemedicine center, patients are provided with specialized medical consultancy by doctors from Fortis OP Jindal Hospital, Raigarh in Chhattisgarh and Hospitals at Bhubaneswar, Cuttack and Keonjhar in Odisha. The telemedicine centers are functional across all locations, i.e Raigarh, Angul, Barbil, Tensa, Jereldaburu, Patratu and Tamnar providing easy accessibility of vital test facility.
Jindal Foundation provides for Mobile Health Care Services for patients who are still far flung and inaccessible to avail of the above services. Mobile health care vans aim to provide access to quality and free medical services, sometimes through camps to poor and tribal populations in far flung or desolate or forest areas and also to generate awareness on preventive health care, curbing superstitious beliefs which are rampant. These mobile health care services also refer critical patients to health centres and dispensaries. Every year around 3lakhs villagers are benefitted through the vans.
Where patients find it difficult to travel to the health centres or dispensaries, Jindal Foundation provides Mobile Health Care Services for patients. These camps aim to provide access to quality and free medical services to poor and tribal populations in far flung or desolate or forest areas and also to generate awareness on preventive health care, curbing superstitious beliefs. These mobile health care services also refer critical patients to health centres or dispensaries.
The Mobile Medical Vans have been providing doorstep medical services in inaccesible áreas, resulting thereby in reduction of vector borne & water borne diseases. Incidences of hospitalization has been reduced by 47 % in case of seasonal and viral diseases. Every year around 3lakhs villagers are benefitted through this service.
Along with the mortality rate commonly associated with HIV, patients often suffer social stigma in the form of ostracism, rejection, discrimination and avoidance by the very communities that they live in. In order to mitigate the social stigma and to identify and assist HIV positive members of the local community, Jindal Foundation often undertakes HIV screening and awareness camps. Till date more than 3.6 lakhs people have been screened voluntarily through the Integrated Counselling and Testing Centres (ICTC), operational at business locations based on NACO guidelines.
While qualified and efficient healthcare benefits the local communities within which Jindal Foundation operates, as the adage goes – prevention is better than cure. In its mission to improve the physical and mental well-being of the local communities, the Foundation tackles this issue not just on the curative front, but also takes preventive steps to curb the spread of disease and stigma associated with certain diseases. These preventive steps largely fall within two categories, viz. - awareness campaigns and screening.
Jindal Foundation has been actively propagating on the ground the practice of 'Know AIDS , No AIDS' and has been putting in all effort to sensitize the community, especially migrant populations, about preventive measures to protect themselves from the risk of infection. Besides, the Foundation counsels the community to go for voluntary testing of HIV & AIDS. To bring about behaviour change, awareness generation activities like interpersonal communication, street plays, skits are conducted.
With an objective to reach out to truck drivers and providing them with primary eye health services, the Project National Truckers Eye Care programme has been initiated from last year at the Transport Nagar - JSP Campus in partnership with Sightsaver India . Project focuses on more inclusive accessible and sustainable eye health strand reducing accidents which are because eye problems to truck driver . 1864 Truckers have received benefits of this project till date.
Tuberculosis is a contagious bacterial infection that primarily affects the lungs. It is caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis and is spread through the air when an infected person coughs or sneezes. This disease has been a major public health concern for centuries and continues to be a significant global health issue. Tuberculosis remains a significant global health threat, but with proper diagnosis, treatment, and prevention measures, it is possible to control the spread of this disease. In this case, awareness building, and need-based and regular medical attention can prevent the disease susceptibility. The Government of India has taken several proactive steps to eradicate tuberculosis (TB) from the country by introducing National Tuberculosis Elimination Program (NTEP) during 1997 and the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Program (RNTCP) in 2006. Even the GoI has joined hands with corporate houses to improve TB care across the nation.
The Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, through Central TB Division, has introduced the ‘Pradhan Mantri TB Mukt Bharat Abhiyaan’ (PMTBMBA) campaign where the community is encouraged to adopt TB patients and support them in the form of nutritional support, nutritional supplements, additional investigations, and vocational support for a minimum period of six months or maximum period of up to three years. Under this programme a donor is called Nikshay-Mitra. Nikshay-Mitras can be Individuals, NGOs, Co-operative societies, Cooperates, Political parties, and the like. A Mitra can adopt a minimum of one consented TB patient on treatment for a minimum period of six months for any kind of support they want to give to the patient. Such palliative care of GoI, towards health improvement of TB patients have shown tremendous impact.
Being a responsible corporate Jindal Steel and Power has joined hands with the Govt. in extending nutritional support to TB patients in Odisha, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand. This noble initiative has been undertaken through Jindal Foundation, the social arm of Jindal Steel and Power.
Under this initiative 2.5 lakh community members of our business locations have been benefitted from regular counselling, screening & testing services. Currently, 5,000+ TB patients from Odisha (Bhubaneswar, Angul, Tensa), Chhattisgarh (Raigarh) and Jharkhand (Patratu) have been provided with monthly nutrition support under Nikshya Mitra of PM’s TB Mukt Bharat. Through such intervention, 1300+ earlier enrolled patients are now out of TB. Over 4000 children of TB affected parents are now provided with free education.
Fulfilling it’s commitment for improving healthcare facility for people of Angul, Jindal Foundation, the social arm of Jindal Steel & Power (JSP), laid the Foundation Stone for a 100 bedded Multi Speciality hospital at Jindal Nagar, Angul.
Jindal Aarogyam Hospital will be fully equipped to provide advanced medical services in various specialities like Medicine , Surgery, Paediatrics, Gynaecology, Nephrology , Gastroenterology, Orthopaedics , Dental and other specialties so that people of Angul need not go to other cities for Medical Treatment . Jindal Aarogyam Hospital, in addition to the modern allopathic health care system, will also provide integrated treatment in Naturopathy and Ayurveda, Homeopathy, Yoga etc.
Jindal Aarogyam Hospital is expected to be operational in next 18 months and will provide state of the art medical services in 17 specialised areas.
These are Medicine, Paediatrics, Gynaecology, Orthopaedics, Cardiology, ENT, Dermatology, Gastroenterology, Nephrology, Endocrinology, Urology, Radiology, Pathology, Dentistry, Ophthalmology and Physiotherapy. All kinds of basic and advanced pathological and radiological diagnosis services such as biochemistry, ultrasound, ECG, X-ray, CT Scan and others will also be available in the hospital. The hospital will also have a 'Burn and Trauma care centre 'for treatment of accident and burn related cases. People will be provided all these services at an affordable cost.
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