DIBRUGARH, Dec 3 - As part of new MoU signed with Piramal Swasthya, the implementing partner with OIL for Project OIL Sparsha, an inaugural camp was organised near Timona HS School, Lahowal Block recently. The programme was attended by local BJP and OIL officials RK Talukdar, DK Bhuyan, among others, along with Dibrugarh civil officials. Seven mobile medical vans were launched on the occasion.
Oil India Limited has been conducting mobile health services in the OIL operational areas in Assam and Arunachal Pradesh through its in-house healthcare team of doctors and paramedics and catering to the primary healthcare needs of poor and the needy free of cost since 1980s. However, this has also been supplemented with Project OIL SPARSHA under which mobile health camps are conducted in remote areas, where access to primary healthcare is a challenge.
Piramal Swasthya Management and Research Institute (PSMRI), one of largest not for profit organisations supported in the public health space has been selected by Oil India Limited as the implementing partner for this project in the OIL operational areas of Dibrugarh, Tinsukia, Charaideo districts in Assam and Changlang district in Arunachal Pradesh. The project consists of seven Mobile Medical Units, each having a capacity of two doctors, two nurses and two pharmacists which will conduct a total of 168 camps on a monthly basis by providing free health checkups, lab tests and medicines to the targeted and vulnerable population of these districts.
OIL�s executive director (human resources), RK Talukdar said Oil India Limited under its corporate social responsibility initiative is extending mobile dispensary services in the remotest parts of its operational areas of Dibrugarh, Tinsukia and Charaideo districts of Assam and Changlang district of Arunachal Pradesh where medical services are not readily accessible.