To reach desperate families who struggle everyday with poverty and lack of health care in Mumbai’s overcrowded slums, RIDA Foundation, India has launched a mobile clinics program to provide critical on-site medical services and affordable medicines in the slums of Mumbai such as Mankhurd, Govandi, Wadala, Mumbra, Khar, Malad and Kurla.
The fully-equiped mobile medical van is staffed with a doctor, pharmacy assistant and driver so that the immediate health care needs of the slum dwellers can be assessed and treated, and proper referrals can be made when necessary. Another focus of the mobile medical unit is to identify and care for patients with chronic diseases like diabetes and hypertension, and to provide them with a continuous supply of free medicines.
Under the banner of it’s CSR initiative Octaware is partnered with RIDA Foundation to work relentlessly to provide financial assistance to the needy cancer patients for their treatment and purchase of medicines.
