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CSR Focus Areas

Prioritising
Health &
Wellbeing

Empowering
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Education

Nation
Building

Strengthening
Rural
Communities

Women
Empowerment

Encouraging
Sports

Prioritising Health & Wellbeing

Better health is central to human happiness and wellbeing. It also makes an important contribution to the nation's economic progress, as the healthy population lives longer, is more productive, and saves more. We, at INOX, have thus chosen health as one of the key focus areas for our CSR investments.

INOX aims to make a positive difference in the lives of the people by promoting healthcare facilities for the upliftment of people at large and creating a positive impact by addressing issues of accessibility and affordability for the underprivileged sections of the society.

Within health, we focus on chronic diseases like Cancer and Thalassemia, which have a long term, crippling impact on the physical, emotional and financial wellbeing of not just the patient but also his/her family.

As part of our CSR, we are investing in medical facilities that have enhanced accessibility and effectiveness of treatment, plus we are alleviating the financial burden through monetary contributions to patients and their families.

Every year, approximately 10,000 children are born with Thalassemia Major in India. The grim reality is that a child with thalassemia homozygous disorder has to take lifelong treatment, which costs around INR 90,000-1,00,000 annually, in a private set-up. This leads to a scenario where only 5-10% of thalassemic children born in India receive optimal treatment.

INOX Air Products Private Limited joined hands with The Wishing Factory (TWF) and established a Thalassemia Wellness Centre in Vadodara, to ensure that people in and around the city get access to affordable healthcare facilities, such as blood transfusions filters and iron chelation pumps.

We took this one step ahead and also supported TWF in starting a unique pump library that provides Infusion Pumps for Iron Chelation to Thalassemia Major patients for free. Under this partnership, 15 pumps will be available at the Pump Library cum Wellness Centre.

INOX Air Products has also adopted 25 underprivileged Thalassemia Major patients and is sponsoring their treatment for Iron Chelation and Blood Transfusions, comprehensively.

Every year, over 50,000 children develop Cancer in India. More than 70% succumb to it because of lack of money and/or lack of proper care and treatment in smaller towns.

Since 2017, we have been contributing financially to the ImPaCCT Foundation, formed by Tata Memorial Centre, to improve treatment, research and education of childhood cancers.

The financial support is directed to the ACT-Survivors Project, Pediatric Ward renovation, travel and for staff training.

INOX believes that no child should die due to lack of quality healthcare, and thus we have been providing financial support to patients from economically weak backgrounds, who cannot afford their treatment. For the same, we collaborated with Shree Krishna Hospital managed by Charutar Arogya Mandal, to provide financial support to underprivileged children fighting Cancer.

Eyesight has a huge impact on a person's quality of life. It impacts performance at work, school and home. When one's vision is at its best, one can perform better in all aspects of their life. Thus, we at INOX are investing in eye care, especially for people in remote rural areas, who do not have access to basic health facilities, due to geographical or financial limitations.

For INOX's Community Eye Care, we joined hands with Sankar Foundation and financially supported cataract surgeries of people from low incomes communities belonging to three different districts of Andhra Pradesh. In all, 2,320 cataract surgeries were carried out and they helped bring back clear vision for cataract patients. The project also includes treating eye disorders through glass prescription, medicine, surgery and other interventions.

We also contributed to help Sankar Foundation distribute 1,360 vision correction glasses through six camps.

When it comes to menstrual health and hygiene, the picture is bleak in India. Menstruation is still considered a taboo subject and several women in India have never even seen or touched a sanitary napkin.

We joined hands with Rajasthan Mahila Mandal to campaign in slums, rural areas, government schools and villages, to create awareness among adolescent girls and women about the significance of using sanitary napkins and its interlink with menstrual health and overall wellbeing.

Sanitary napkins were also distributed among marginalised women and girls as part of the project.

INOX provided financial aid to Shree Krishna Hospital managed by Charutar Arogya Mandal, to support the treatment of 100 underprivileged cardiac patients.

Patients who cannot afford high cost treatment are now provided with corrective surgeries for congenital heart disease, heart valve repairs and replacement, vascular and thoracic surgeries at concessional rates.

Chronic kidney disease is a worldwide public health problem, a social calamity and an economic catastrophe. High cost of maintenance, hemodialysis (HD) and continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (PD) in India, has made renal replacement therapy out of reach for many patients.

We provided Charotar Arogya Mandal with financial support to procure and install 7 hemodialysis machines at the new dialysis centre in Shree Krishna Hospital at Karamsad town in Gujarat.

OUR INTERVENTIONS FOCUS ON DEVELOPING HEALTHCARE FACILITIES AND PROMOTING PREVENTIVE MEASURES AGAINST TRACTABLE AILMENTS.

Oral health is fundamental to the general health and wellbeing of individuals, especially young children. Oral diseases affect the quality of life of children and account for pain, speech disorders, recurrent infections, eating troubles, inadequate nutritional intake, among other things.

We are supporting the Government of Maharashtra's initiative of conducting oral health camps for children across government schools, through 'Healthy Smiles', an organisation that has been spreading awareness and conducting dental camps in the schools run by Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC).

The dental camps were able to benefit 19,000 children.

One of India's leading healthcare institutions, Breach Candy Hospital, Mumbai had been observing an increase in its patient flow and their existing strength of 200 beds was proving to be inadequate. Our contribution has helped the hospital to execute expansion and renovation of their maternity ward.

Under INOX's Community Eye Care Project, we have financially supported Sankar Foundation Eye Hospital to help them install Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) equipment that will be extremely useful for Glaucoma patients and for the diagnosis of Diabetic Retinopathy, Branch Retinal Vein Occlusion (BRVO) and Choroidal Neovascular Membranes (CNVM). More than 500 patients have availed the benefits, out of which the majority of beneficiaries are patients from rural and tribal areas with low family incomes.

We also contributed to help build the Citi Hospital in Maddilapalem, Andhra Pradesh, with the aim of integrating a sustainable, comprehensive, high-quality, equitable eye care for people from tribal and low income communities.

INOX has provided financial aid to Shrutakevali Education Trust that built the Bahubali General Hospital in Hassan District, Karnataka. The hospital was inaugurated by our Honourable Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, and it offers free healthcare services like a free checkup, free medicines and eye care among other facilities. The funds contributed by INOX were used for purchasing medical instruments for the hospital. INOX is supporting the Trust in its efforts to take preventive healthcare to the most remote corners of the country and helping make quality healthcare accessible and affordable for all.