Hyundai launches social responsibility programme
Hyundai Motors India today launched its 'Happy Move Global Youth Volunteers' programme as part of its corporate social responsibility, sponsored by the company headquarters in Korea.
By PTI |
KANCHEEPURAM: Hyundai Motors India today launched its 'Happy Move Global Youth Volunteers' programme as part of its corporate social responsibility, sponsored by the company headquarters in Korea.
Under the programme, 20 medical professionals and students from Korea would come to India for rural exposure, serving the students and doctors of the area.
Launching the programme, HM Managing Director H S Lheem said it was aimed at prevention of communicable diseases and would counsel schools on the same.
Stressing that the company, which has its manufacturing unit in the district, was committed to enhancing the quality of life and environment in Kancheepuram and Poonamalle blocks, Lheem said it would launch a mobile clinic with all facilities to link peripheral hospitals to the base hospitals.
Seventy wheel chairs were handed over to the state Health Secretary V K Subburaj for use in different public health centres. A total of 100 sets of desks and chairs were donated to the school in the Nemmili village and received by Kancheepuram Education District CEO Ramana.
Subburaj said world class health care could be possibly achieved through corporate tie ups. The government had created in 1,420 PHCs patient welfare societies, empowering them with a 'seed amount' for improving infrastructure of the hospitals.
Under the programme, 20 medical professionals and students from Korea would come to India for rural exposure, serving the students and doctors of the area.
Launching the programme, HM Managing Director H S Lheem said it was aimed at prevention of communicable diseases and would counsel schools on the same.
Stressing that the company, which has its manufacturing unit in the district, was committed to enhancing the quality of life and environment in Kancheepuram and Poonamalle blocks, Lheem said it would launch a mobile clinic with all facilities to link peripheral hospitals to the base hospitals.
Seventy wheel chairs were handed over to the state Health Secretary V K Subburaj for use in different public health centres. A total of 100 sets of desks and chairs were donated to the school in the Nemmili village and received by Kancheepuram Education District CEO Ramana.
Subburaj said world class health care could be possibly achieved through corporate tie ups. The government had created in 1,420 PHCs patient welfare societies, empowering them with a 'seed amount' for improving infrastructure of the hospitals.
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He cited the PHC in Medavakkam near Chennai as an example of private and government joint venture in health sector, where donations up to Rs two crores have made it the 'best in the country'.Download
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