India’s 100 million senior citizens lack affordable healthcare access. P&G Health and Help Age India, a leading charitable organization, has launched a Mobile Healthcare Unit (MHU) in Guwahati to provide sustainable solutions and emergency relief to disadvantaged elderly in remote areas. This initiative aims to address the issue of inadequate healthcare access for the elderly in India.
MHU provides free treatment, medications, and counseling to elderly patients, reducing hospital queues, transportation expenses, and medicine costs. The MHU team monitors elders’ health, providing health cards, maintaining treatment records, and conducting diagnostics, home visits, and counseling. Under P&G Health’s SEHAT CSR program, the ‘Gift of Health Program’ supports over 10,000 treatments and 22,000 senior citizens in India.
The program aims to contribute to a healthier India. 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.”SEHAT supported HelpAge India’s Covid-19 emergency response by providing 1670 survival kits to disadvantaged elderly in Goa, Maharashtra, Odisha, Karnataka, and Chhattisgarh districts, focusing on hygiene and grocery items.
