NTPC to open new facilities at Korba hospital

The National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) will open a Directly Observed Treatment Centre (DOT) and a District Disability Rehabilitation Centre (DDRC) at its Korba hospital to take care of tuberculosis patients and disabled persons.

A tripartite Memorandum of Understanding was inked between the NTPC Korba, NTPC Foundation and National Institute of Orthopedically Handicaped (NIOH,Kolkata) to execute the proposal.

The Executive Director of NTPC (Korba), Janardan Kar, General Manager (NTPC Foundation) Dinesh Agarwal, and NIOD Director Dr Ratnesh Kumar signed the agreement at a function held in Korba recently.

NTPC, the largest thermal power generating company of the country, has a 2,100-Mw power project in Korba, about 250 km from here. Korba is one of the stations of the NTPC that produces power at the cheapest rate.

The company officials said that the DOT centre, for which the MoU was signed, had been running at NTPC Hospital, Korba since 2007 and had examined over 100 patients till date. The centre provides free diagnosis and medicines to the affected persons.

The Disability Rehabilitation Centre, which is to be established, aims at gathering details of disable persons in the vicinity of NTPC Korba and subsequently provide various assistive aids and appliances.

The initiatives are in line with the objective of NTPC Foundation, a Public Charitable Trust, which was set up in 2004 to focus on identified areas such as establishing ICT center for visually impaired persons, setting up disability rehabilitation center, supporting TB control programme and decentralized distributed generation and thus build a pan-Indian character of NTPC’s social initiatives.

NTPC has employed 475 persons with disability and has received NCPEDP Shell Helen Keeler Award three times.