Healthcare
A majority of Indians in rural areas cannot afford quality healthcare. According to a study by PricewaterhouseCoopers, 20 million people rank below the poverty line every year due to debts incurred from healthcare cost.
The Infosys Foundation is making high-quality healthcare accessible to the underprivileged. Since inception in 1996, the Foundation has constructed hospital wards, built dharamsalas (rest houses) at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS) in Bengaluru, donated medicines and advanced medical equipment to hospitals, and organized health camps in remote areas.
The Foundation is involved in several healthcare programs:
2010-11
- Constructed the Standard Care & Rehabilitation Center for mentally challenged patients at H.D. Kote, Karnataka, under the auspices of Chittaprakash Trust
- Supplied mobile incubators to hospitals for poor patients
- Provided food for leprosy, tuberculosis, HIV-positive, and blind patients in Karnataka
2009-10
- Provided financial assistance to the Multiple Sclerosis Society of India (MSSI) for improving the field work of volunteers
- Helped construct a herbal dispensary at Ankola to treat poor patients
- Provided financial assistance to Sri Ramakrishna Sevashrama in Pavagada and Madhugiri to treat tuberculosis patients
2008-09
- Constructed a hospital for Sankara Nethralaya to make high-quality ophthalmic services accessible to poor patients
- Provided financial assistance for the surgery of cleft lip and cleft palate patients at Chirantana Trust
- Donated Fluorescein Angiography equipment to Shree Sharada Devi Eye Hospital, Pavagada
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