Healthcare

The Constitution and the Supreme Court have reiterated the provision for healthcare to each citizen on time to time basis. The Government’s effort in this regard is exemplary and the AYUSHMAN BHARAT is a concrete manifestation of the efforts of the Government. These developments are important not only in the national context but these efforts bring India at par with the global developments and would help the country in achieving the targets enshrined under the SDGs. Goal 3 of the SDGs makes provisions to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages.
Our objectives –

• To organise health camps and eye camps in rural areas.
• To educate villagers about the health schemes implemented by the Government at Central and State level.
• To ensure the capacity development of villagers for improving their living conditions and ensuring effective implementation of the health schemes.
• To assist the government in the fight for healthy villages.
• To collaborate with private companies, especially pharmaceutical companies, to take-up CSR initiatives for health activities in rural areas.
• To assist the government in ensuring the upliftment of health standards of rural India in the long-term.

AGAM organises health camps to provide healthcare facilities at the grass-roots level. Health camps provide much-needed attention to the people that are in need, or of old age or to those who are differently abled. It is also beneficial for people living in remote locations. Health camps were started in early 2016 when one of the founding members of AGAM persuaded few doctors to conduct a health check-up in Gonda, one of the backward cities in Uttar Pradesh. Since then AGAM has organised several health camps. These camps receive immense support from the local people. During these camps, free generic drugs as prescribed by the doctors are provided alongside valuable advice to lead a healthy life.

Eye Camps

Apart from providing general healthcare facilities to the marginalised, to provide specific healthcare check-ups, eye-camps are being organised by AGAM. The first eye-camp was organised in a government school in Sahibabad, Ghaziabad.

This was followed by other camps held in village Nidori, Ghaziabad. Our eye camps brought out an insightful outcome. In the school most of the students that were supposed to use spectacles, but they were not aware that their eyes were weak and needed immediate attention. After understanding the gravity of the situation in the government school, we conducted eye camps across villages beyond NCR.

The major goals of organising these health camps are:

• To advance the aim of health consciousness, awareness and education for better quality of life and healthy practices.
• To support improvisation in the nutrition and child care education for women for the physical and mental well-being of the child.
• To provide information, education and the medical advice to general public regarding vices such as smoking, tobacco, alcohol, etc.
• To educate and capacitate villagers about the vagaries of communicable diseases, and sexually transmitted diseases.
• To educate and capacitate women about the need of cleanliness during periods of menstruation and the negative impact of negligence.
• To encourage games, sports, yoga, karate, hockey, football, cricket and other games of national and international importance for improvement in health amongst the youth and children.