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A new beginning: Union Minister for Women and Child Development Renuka Chowdhury at the launch in New Delhi on Tuesday of “Smile on Wheels” a mobile hospital for providing health care services in slums and urban villages of Delhi and Chennai. NEW DELHI: Union Women and Child Development Minister Renuka Chaudhary flagged off two “Smile on Wheels” mobile hospitals here in the Capital on Tuesday that will take health care facilities to the doorsteps of the poor and the needy. “This is a very ambitious and wonderful project that is going to benefit hundreds of thousands of people who otherwise suffer from various health complications for want of proper health care facility in their vicinity,” said Ms. Chaudhary. The two mobile hospitals would provide health care services -- preventive, promotive and curative -- to the underprivileged population living in slums and urban villages of Delhi and Chennai. “Smile on Wheels” intends to cover a target population area of more than 2 lakh. Smile Foundation Chief Operating Officer Naresh Chaudhary said there was a yawning gap between available health care services and their accessibility to a large population of our country. “Initiatives like ‘Smile on Wheels’ need to be encouraged and supported by the Government as well as private players if this gap is to be bridged,” he added. X-Ray machinesEquipped with an examination table, ECG, X-Ray machines, oxygen cylinders, first-aid kit and a team of doctors and para-medical staff, the two fully air-conditioned mobile hospitals would provide OPD-curative services for common ailments, basic pathological services, identify high-risk pregnancies, immunisation (mother and child) and treatment of malnutrition cases. In less than two years after the launch of the first phase, the programme is said to have provided health care services to 1.5 lakh people in 249 villages across Uttarakhand, Orissa, West Bengal, Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh.
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