Excelsior Correspondent
BHADERWAH, Aug 5: Under its initiative to provide access to healthcare to the far flung areas of Jammu and Kashmir, Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals holds Chenab valley round table meeting, here with key opinion leaders and officials of district and State administration.
The initiative was taken under Apollo Konnect, which is a community connect program, wherein, healthcare experts from Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals connect with opinion leaders and district level authorities including panchayats and local hospitals and doctors of tier two cities to facilitate healthcare facilities to the far flung areas of the country.
Dr Sameer Kaul, Senior Consultant, Surgical Oncology, Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals said, “A majority of 700 million people lives in rural areas where the condition of medical facilities is deplorable. Healthcare is the right of every individual but lack of quality infrastructure, lack of qualified medical functionaries, and non- access to basic medicines and medical facilities thwarts its reach to 60 percent of population in India. Apollo Konnect Programme is aimed at providing primary, preventive and promotive healthcare through such community connect programs. This is in an effort to bring healthcare closer to patients of both urban and rural areas. Considering the ongoing unrest in the State, it becomes essential that the healthcare services should reach at the remotest level in the least possible time”.
Apollo Hospitals has always strongly believed in social initiatives that help transcend barriers. In keeping with this, the group has started several impactful programmes in remote areas of the country, which lead to leverage the knowledge and technology to the development of remote corners of the country.
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