India is home to an estimated 100 million senior citizens, but unfortunately, not all have access to affordable healthcare. Prompted by the need to cater to this issue, P&G Health and Help Age India, leading charitable organization working with and for older people in India for the past 45 years, have extended their ‘Gift of Health Program for the elderly’, to launch a Mobile Healthcare Unit (MHU) in Guwahati. This program will help provide sustainable healthcare solutions and emergency relief to disadvantaged elderly in remote areas around Guwahati.
The MHU offers free treatment, medications, and counseling to the elderly population, reducing hospital queues, transportation expenses, and medicine costs. The team monitors their health, provides health cards, maintains treatment records, and conducts diagnostics, home visits, and counseling.
This program, under P&G Health’s SEHAT CSR program, has supported over 10,000 treatments and 22,000 senior citizens in India over the past two years. Speaking about this initiative Milind Thatte, Managing Director, Procter & Gamble Health Limited, said,” We will continue our interventions through SEHAT thereby facilitating more people to live healthier lives across all levels of the society.”
