NTPC join hands with Osmania General Hospital for medical equipment procurement

Hyderabad: With an aim to provide better healthcare services to the people, Hyderabad's Osmania General Hospital (OGH) and the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) signed a Memorandum of Agreement on Thursday, June 15, sanctioning the procurement of medical equipment for the hospital. 

The equipment would come up at the urology department which specializes in kidney transplantation. The corporation signed the pact with the Hospital Development Society under corporate social responsibility (CSR). 

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The initial installation and commissioning of the project would take place over six months, following which it would be annually monitored for a year. The project aims at providing preventive, curative and behavioural levels of treatment, provide referral services to the needy and specialized treatment at tertiary healthcare institutions. 

Sabyasachi Padhi, DGM-HR, SRHQ signed the memorandum on behalf of NTPC and B. Nagendar, superintendent of Osmania General Hospital signed it on behalf of the hospital. 

RED (South & WR-1) Debashish Chattopadhyay, according to a media report in Telangana Today, stated that NTPC believed in pursuing people-centric development. He added that NTPC is taking up a comprehensive Community Development initiative in the areas of primary education, community health, drinking water, sanitation, women empowerment, skill development, community infrastructure with a focus on Health and Nutrition. The hospital had approached the NTPC to serve patients from financially marginalised communities. 

In December last year, the central-owned public sector Power Grid Corporation of India Limited (PGCIL) donated state-of-the-art medical equipment worth Rs 65 lakh to Osmania General Hospital (OGH), which was reported by the Medical Dialogues team. The initiative was taken as part of its corporate social responsibility (CSR) activity. The equipment was donated to provide sustainable healthcare benefits to poor patients who visit the hospital in the hope of receiving proper treatment. 

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