A healthy mind always resides in a healthy body. If a person is not keeping in good health, his or her mind can never be at rest.

When we were in Kindergarten, we invariably came home mumbling our favourite nursery rhyme, ‘Early to bed and early to rise; makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise’. These were the words of Benjamin Franklin, a man who could rise higher in life because he believed that keeping in good health was above everything.

Good health contributes heavily to the economic prosperity of a nation, hence making it imperative to not lag behind out of neglect at an individual level. In our country, however, individuals are also suffering because of a lack of infrastructure. With only one doctor for 1,700 people, the current situation exists due to a huge gap in delivering healthcare services to both the rich and poor, and the discrepancies that lie in extending healthcare amenities to the lesser privileged.

Our Need-Based Effort

With this in mind, the Ponty Chadha Foundation (PCF) has taken a step towards adopting a need-based approach. And the approach includes ensuring prompt diagnosis and treatment of persons suffering from health issues. In this regard, we reached out to people at the grassroot level by setting up free health check-up camps in remote and inaccessible areas of the country.

As a large section of the Indian population still resides in the villages, we decided to extend health benefits to the rural community in particular. This time around, we are putting our diagnostic health camps in Mehrauli, Kuriya Gari, Bamheta, Bayana, and other construction sites in urban areas. Our schedule for the month of March is as under:

2/3/16 – Mehrauli

9/3/16 – Kuriya Gari

18/3/16 – Bamheta

30/3/16 – Bayana

Collaboration with Indo-German Hospital

A CSR initiative by the WAVE Group, all PCF health camps are being organised in collaboration with Dr. Ram Saran Garg Indo-German Hospital. So far, we have treated many cases successfully and offered referral facilities to those who featured in extreme and severe categories. This March, we would toil away to offer free medical aid to not just the vulnerable sections of our society, but also those who can’t avail treatment due to their poor financial condition.

We go to the poorest, make a note of their health conditions and give away free-of-cost medicine. We have not limited ourselves to the youth but taken the pain to go an extra mile and care for women and the elderly, hence making sure that nobody is left out in our journey towards inclusive development.

Get in touch with us if you want to volunteer or lend a helping hand, and hop on to the train to development with a #WaveOfChange.