RCB Ties Up With L&T For Talwada Eye Centre

Through PP Rumi Jehangir and Abbas Arsiwala, the Rotary Club of Bombay has been approached by L&T Public Charitable Trust (LTPCT) to partner with our Medical Centre at Talwada to achieve the following objectives:

A. Provide access to quality healthcare by deploying primary health care and specialty services at the doorsteps of the underprivileged and needy communities in Vikramgad block area and Palghar District.

B. To identify illnesses and diseases at an early stage and provide curative and referral services.

1. There is an ongoing District level project – Right to Sight – for which PRVEC will be utilised to carry out cataract surgeries. LTPCT will reimburse us Rs 3,000 per surgery and the target given to us is to carry out 500 surgeries by June 2023.

2. Today, our major hurdle is getting sufficient footfalls at both PRVEC and ADMC. To overcome this, LTPCT is positioning an ambulance permanently, with paramedics, to undertake outreach programmes as well as transport patients to our centres.

3. After their visit to PRVEC as well as ADMC, L&T felt we needed to upgrade the look and feel of the hospital and will be supporting us with up to Rs 10 lakh for this purpose.

4. To achieve the above activities, we have permitted LTPCT to park their ambulance within our premises and also allotted a room from which their staff can operate.

We hope this will be the beginning of a much deeper association with LTPCT who have successfully done tremendous work throughout rural India with the same objectives.