Corporate Social Responsibility

Corporate Social Commitment and Public Service is deeply embedded into the cultural fabric of Ranbaxy. Over the years serious efforts have been directed towards making a meaningful contribution in uplifting and transforming the lives of the underprivileged. The Company is also extremely conscious of its duty and responsibility towards the environment. We continue to make sincere efforts to promote good health, social development and better environment, through various Company programs that contribute to sustainable, all round growth.

In 1978, in the wake of the grim health scenario in India, Ranbaxy realised the urgency to reach out to the underprivileged sections of society that had little or no access to basic healthcare. The Company took a conscious decision to contribute towards the national objective “Health For All”. Towards this end, the “Ranbaxy Rural Development Trust” was set up and the first well equipped mobile healthcare van was introduced, in certain underserved areas of Punjab. As the program grew, the Ranbaxy Community Healthcare Society (RCHS), an independent body, was created. RCHS is devoted to the health of the disadvantaged. Today, 16 well equipped mobile healthcare vans and an urban family welfare centre, run by Ranbaxy, benefit over 5.5 lakh people, in identified areas in the State of Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Delhi. A total of 76 personnel including 26 doctors 30 nurses are devoted full time to the program. The program is based on an integrated approach of preventive, promotive and curative services, spanning areas of maternal child health, family planning, reproductive health, adolescent health, health education including AIDS awareness.

List of Services Provided

• Treatment of Common Ailments
• Maternal & Child Health
• Antenatal Care
• Immunization – (BCG, Diptheria, Hepatitis B Polio, Whooping Cough, Tetanus & Measles)
• Growth Monitoring
• Safe Motherhood
• Vitamin A, Prophylaxis for prevention of nutritional blindness
• Treatment of Diarrohea & Pneumonia
• Postnatal Care
• Family Planning
• Sterilization (Referral and follow up)
• Provision of Family Planning Methods (Copper T, Oral Pills, Condoms)
• Prevention and Treatment of Sexually Transmitted Diseases & Reproductive Tract Infections
• Control of Disease Outbreak
• Health Education AIDS awareness
• School Health
• Adolescent Health
• Home visits by ANM

Health education is the main stray of the program. All RCHS units organise and participate in a wide variety of activities aimed at involving communities. RCHS uses innovative platforms like magic shows, audio-visual programs, street plays, adarsh mata contests, health baby contests and essay/quiz competitions and debates etc., to impart key messages on maternal child health, family planning, reproductive health, adolescent health, AIDS, malaria, dengue, tuberculoses, life style diseases (diabetes, hypertension, coronary heart diseases stroke and cancer) including prevention of female foeticide with the active involvement and participation of the community.

RCHS firmly believes in a focused and integrated approach to the basic issues of healthcare that are elementary and directly responsible for the state of community health in our service areas. As is increasingly obvious from the data coming in, the impact of the program over the years has been rewarding. One of the major achievements of RCHS is the attainment of zero maternal mortality rate in its service areas, which is indeed a turning point in our battle to keep mothers alive through pregnancy and childbirth. Diahhorea, a major killer disease for the under five children, is not a serious threat now. Slowly yet surely, the move to achieve positive health for all in our service areas is beginning to bear fruit. This is also reflected truly by the tangible and measurable results especially in respect to substantial fall in the infant mortality rate which is one of the most sensitive indicators of health of a community. These positive outcomes are the result of scientific approach and strategic planning to tackle major issues like low birth weight, pneumonia, diarrohea, lack of essential new born and neo-natal care and counseling of couples for readiness to meet any emergency during pregnancy and child birth.