The Healthcare Panel of CII, Coimbatore and Young Indians along with the support of the Coimbatore Corporation have planned to organise comprehensive health screening camps for all permanent sanitary workers of the Coimbatore Corporation during December 2016. The initiative named as 'Healthy Kovai' was launched today at the Corporation office in the presence of Dr. Vijayakarthikeyan, Commissioner and Special Officer, CCMC. Dr S Raja Sabapathy, Convenor, Healthcare Panel, CII Coimbatore Zone and other senior office bearers of CII and Yi were present during the launch session.
Thyrocare, ITC’s CSR division, “Well Being out of Waste (WOW)” and Rathna Group and 9 other leading hospitals from the city of Coimbatore will be partnering in this project.
The project aims reach out to all the sanitary workers and provide them best-in-class healthcare screening services. Special camps equipped with state-of-art medical care would be organised at different wards in conducive timings of the sanitary workers. Such camps would be organised in two-phases, during the first phase camps will be organised between 10th to 24th December, 2016 and the subsequent camp on 7th January, 2017. About 2,500 permanent sanitary workers are expected to be the ultimate beneficiaries of these special medical camps.
Speaking at the launch function, Dr S Raja Sabapathy, Convenor, Healthcare Panel, CII Coimbatore Zone, briefed on the way in which the medical camps are planned across several wards. He also mentioned on the efforts taken by all 9 partner hospitals towards adding value to the health of sanitary workers of the corporation through comprehensive medical tests. He concluded by mentioning that a final outcome dossier will be prepared and will be handed over to the Commissioner for further course of action.
Yi Healthcare team comprising of Mr Vishnu Prabhakar, Mr Shri Kumaravelu and Dr Aishwarya Arjun made a presentation explaining about the process in which the camps are planned to be conducted and also the partnering organisations and hospitals that are a part of this initiative. They also stressed on the importance and impetus given by all the partnering organisations towards the success of this initiative.
Dr K Vijayakarthikeyan, Commissioner, Coimbatore Corporation in his address commended on the meticulous planning and the seamless execution proposed by the organizing team. He also appreciated the efforts taken by the team to bring in leading hospitals from across the city as partners in this 'Healthy Kovai' initiative, particularly in reference to the target recipients being the health guardians (sanitary workers) of our city.
He assured all logistical support towards the success of this initiative. He also mentioned that the outcome report explaining various health metrics and related data with reference to the workers will be a boon towards planning health welfare initiatives for them in future. As a closing note, he mentioned that all community involved projects across the city have succeeded in the recent past and he assured that this “Healthy Kovai” initiative will also be a very successful one.