Wockhardt Foundation has entered into a strategic alliance with Gas Authority of India Ltd (GAIL) to jointly launch Vision 1000 healthcare programme in Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh.
The Foundation through its Vision 1000 aims to provide free primary healthcare at the doorstep of the poor families in rural and remote areas through a pan-India network of mobile healthcare units. GAIL India has its major installations in these two States. It is looking at signing strategic alliances with companies across private and public sectors to join hands as partners for its Vision 1000 programme on a pan-India basis.
The roll-out of the programme in these two states will commence from the first week of October 2011. Through this mobile healthcare outreach programme in two states both the partners would enable free primary healthcare aid to nearly 135,000 patients annually in MP and approximately 90,000 patients in UP.
According to Dr Huzaifa Khorakiwala, CEO and Inspiration, Wockhardt Foundation said, “Having successfully launched Vision 1000 across Gujarat, Orissa and various parts of Maharashtra, it has now become imminent that we put the programme’s expansion on a fast-track. Our partnership with GAIL provides us a like-minded partner to aid in the expansion of Vision 1000. Through this strategic collaboration with GAIL, we are expanding the programme in two key states. Over the next one year we aim to further expand this programme across other states of the country.”
As part of its Vision 1000 expansion plan, over the next 5 years Wockhardt Foundation plans to have a network of 1000 mobile healthcare units spread across the length and breadth of the Indian sub-continent. The pan-India expansion will help Wockhardt Foundation reach out to nearly 25 million poor people with free healthcare services across the country.
Source:Pharmabiz
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