Making high-quality healthcare the norm is an ongoing challenge. Since its inception, the Foundation has initiated several activities that benefit the rural and urban poor. Apart from constructing hospital wards, donating hi-tech equipment and organizing health camps, the Foundation also distributes medicines to economically-weaker sections in remote areas.
The Foundation constructed the Infosys Super-specialty Hospital on the Sassoon Hospital premises in Pune. This hospital caters to poor patients
It has spread its donations for medicines to aged and poor patients suffering from cancer, leprosy, defects of the heart/kidney, mental illnesses and other major disorders. It helps this section meet substantial medical expenses and assures them of a steady source of income for their treatment
The Foundation installed office management software at the KEM Hospital in Mumbai. This enables the hospital to manage store requirements, keep accounts as well as publish hospital papers and other information on the Web
Additional blocks have been built at the Swami Sivananda Centenary Charitable Hospital at Tirunelveli in Tamil Nadu
Additional blocks have also been built at the Bangalore Diabetic Hospital
A dharmashala was constructed at the Kidwai Cancer Institute in Bangalore
The Foundation constructed a pediatric hospital at the Capitol Hospital in Bhubaneswar, which caters to poor patients. A CT-scan machine was also donated to the hospital
Additional wards were built at the Swami Shivananda Memorial Charitable Hospital in Pattumadai, Tamil Nadu
The annex to a cancer hospital in Kancheepuram, Tamil Nadu was added
A hospital was built for tribals at H.D. Kote, Mysore.
In Bellary, a hospital was constructed to treat patients with brain fever
The Foundation air-conditioned the burns ward of the Victoria Hospital, Bangalore
A high-energy linear accelerator unit was purchased for the treatment of cancer patients at the Chennai Cancer Institute in Tamil Nadu
The Foundation has donated ambulances to medical centers and hospitals in Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu, Gadag, B.R. Hills and South Canara in Karnataka and Kalahandi, Chandrashekarpur and Bhubaneswar in Orissa
It has also donated high-tech surgical equipment to hospitals located at Mysore, Bijapur, Bellary and Hubli in Karnataka
Incubators, air conditioner units, neonatal resuscitation equipment and refrigerators have been given to the Bowring Hospital, Bangalore, while ultrasound scanners have been donated to the Ramakrishna Ashram, Coorg and the Bangalore Government Hospital
The Foundation has made donations to the Drug Foundation for Nuclear Medicine at the cancer hospital in Miraj and the Kidwai Hospital in Bangalore
A leprosy camp was conducted, and relief work was carried out at the Leprosy Colony in Gulbarga
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