Hindalco saves lives in Sambalpur

Seventy-year-old Golabati Seth was soaking up the winter sun on the verandah when Hindalco's Hirakud team met her at her home in Khinda village in Odisha's Sambalpur district.
She appeared healthier and her recurrent cough, which she was suffering from when the team first met her in August last year, was nowhere there.
Golabati said in last August she was in constant pain - she had a racking cough and high fever and was diagnosed insomniac too. To make matters worse, medical help is scant in her village and she was too weak to travel, she said.
Her village happens to be close to Aditya Birla Group's Hindalco plant and she was spotted, looking frail and distraught, by a member of the company's medical team during a visit to her Khinda. Doctors attended her, conducted some tests, diagnosed her illness and prescribed her medicines.

Within a month, she was fit. Timely intervention from Hindalco medical team brought Golabati back from a point of no return. "Hadn't it been for Hindalco team of doctors God knows what would have happened to me. The credit for my recovery goes to Hindalco's CSR and medical team," she said.
Like Golabati, around 47,000 others from seven villages in Hirakud are benefitting from Hindalco's healthcare programmes. The backbone of these programmes is the medical team of seven - five doctors and two pharmacists - who visit these villages twice a week.
Consultation and medicines are provided free-of-cost, as are the tests. Where patients need critical care, the company arranges to have them shifted to nearby Burla Government Hospital.

Besides this, Family Planning Operation Camp, Cataract Operation Camp, Pulse Polio Immunisation programme, Camp for Physically Handicapped, Dental Camp, Routine Immunisation programmes, Blood Donation Camps and Awareness Camp for Dengue, HIV and Leprosy are being organised by the Company at regular intervals in the adjacent seven villages which benefit to almost around 47,000 people.