Health Programmes

SPARSH (Shree Krishna Hospital Programme for Advancement of Rural and Social Health), implemented by Charutar Arogya Mandal in the Anand, Kheda and Panchmahal districts, aims at connecting the last person in villages to appropriate levels of healthcare through trained Village Health Workers (VHWs) in their own villages, health centres in towns/villages close by, and a tertiary care centre for critical cases.

GMM Pfaudler funds the activities of the programme in 100 of the 150 villages it covers. In terms of the population covered, while the entire programme covers a population of 4.5 lakhs, the villages funded by GMM Pfaudler have a population of approximately 3 lakhs.

SPARSH 150 is focused on the prevention, treatment and care of chronic diseases, such as Diabetes, Hypertension, Cancer, and chronic respiratory diseases. Various interventions, such as camps, school-based awareness sessions, community awareness sessions, home delivery of medicines for chronic patients, and home visits for bed-ridden patients are undertaken under this programme.

GMM Pfaudler Ltd. has donated a Mobile Clinic to a healthcare service institution, Charutar Arogya Mandal (CAM). The mobile clinic will enable CAM to provide health outreach services across 100 villages in the Anand and Kheda districts of Gujarat. GMM Pfaudler’s Project SPARSH (Shree Krishna Hospital Programme for Advancement of Rural and Social Health) is implemented by Charutar Arogya Mandal – a charitable trust and diversified healthcare service institution based in Karamsad, Gujarat. The Mobile Clinic will provide free medical diagnosis and basic treatment to thousands of people in inaccessible and vulnerable rural areas across nearly 100 villages in the Anand and Kheda Districts of the state.

The Mobile Clinic has a reception desk, doctors’ consultancy zone, a laboratory, a pharmacy and is equipped with an ECG machine, clinical blood and blood sugar examination kits, a Fundus photography equipment to document retinal diseases and early detection of Diabetes and hypertensive patients, and Diabetic foot assessment by Vibrotherm device, among others.

The donated Mobile Clinic is also equipped with an LED TV for health awareness and conducting awareness-raising sessions about various diseases. The Mobile Clinic will have full-time doctors and about four paramedics and healthcare workers at any given point in time and will cover about four villages every day.