March of this year brought about many changes in the lives of people and their work. Piramal Swasthya’s block team members have been actively engaged in COVID-19 preparedness to support the district efforts. While facility-level preparedness was being enhanced by the government, Piramal Foundation’s Block Transformation Officers (BTOs) got actively involved in community-level preparedness. Rohit, […]
During July 2019, Piramal Swasthya in partnership with CARE Hospitals had launched UMEED Project, a Community Level Screening program for Oral, Breast and Cervical Cancers at Moinabad Mandal at Ranga Reddy District, Telangana State. The objective of the project is to mobilize community and create awareness on significance of early detection of cancers followed by […]
The old American anthropological literature quotes that, tobacco was given to a star boy, ancestor of the Absarokas, to make everyone in his family strong and free. There are many other such fascinating stories related to the origin and use of tobacco in ancient society. It is necessary to dig the stories a little to […]
The Introduction: WHO estimates that every year, trans fats intake leads to more than 500,000 deaths of people from cardiovascular disease. Realizing the graveness of the situation WHO Director-General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus calls on governments around the world to use the REPLACE action package to eliminate industrially-produced trans-fatty acids from the food supply1. After reading […]
Over the years, it has become more evident than ever before that improving health status of communities infact starts in domains that lie largely outside the hierarchical set-up of the health services. One such important start point should be the ‘Community’ itself. The current Public Health issues in India majorly include chronic diseases, Non-Communicable diseases, […]
Access to quality healthcare is a right of every individual but lack of basic facilities at public facility centers and dearth of qualified medical professionals is a major roadblock in securing this objective. Community health workers play an important role in improving the healthcare service delivery on ground by acting as a link between healthcare […]
