Mobile Health Care

YMWS collaborated with Indian Oxygen between 1982 and 1996 to operate two mobile vans to serve the rural hinterland. The vans were designed as mobile clinics each managed by a medical team comprising a doctor, a nurse and a compounder. For 16 years, these mobile vans took health care to the mother and child in South Bengal. A few hundred thousands were benefitted. The then Chief Minister of West Bengal Sri Jyoti Basu inaugurated the project at Oxygen House.

Thus, what is now known as ‘Corporate Social Responsibility’ was experimented by us in Kolkata as early as 1982…