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Reliance Foundation’s Drishti Blood donation drives
During the year, Reliance Foundation organised blood donation camps in two 45,260 units of blood
districts of Maharashtra that brought together over 200 community members.
In addition to it, support was provided to several organisations, including the Indian Collected for 73,700 beneficiaries Healthcare
Medical Association, Rotary Blood Bank, Surat Raktadan Kendra & Research, Rotary across 95 blood donation camps
Noida Research and Social and the Voluntary Health Services. Across these places, during FY 2020-21
Reliance conducted a total of 95 blood donation camps during FY 2020-21, leading to
the collection of 45,260 units of blood for 73,700 beneficiaries.

Reliance Foundation operated MMUs in Shahdol, MP providing primary care and
easing the pressure on local health infrastructure. The MMUs also raised community
awareness on COVID-19 protocols such as social distancing, mask wearing and hand-
washing

Community outreach
The RF Drishti programme enabled students
Free consultations, health awareness sessions, blood to express the India of their dreams through
donation camps, wellness initiatives for children and the paintings
aged were carried out in FY 2020-21.
Reliance Foundation has helped improve
On special days, various community activities are undertaken by and restore the vision of people from
Reliance Foundation deploying various interactive methods to engage underprivileged segments of society
public attention and encourage positive health and health-seeking through its Drishti programme. A nurse monitoring the maternal and neonatal health with the help of ASMAN Tablet in a government hospital in Vidisha, Madhya Pradesh
behaviours. For people living with HIV, over 19, 500 specialised
consultations were provided at Lodhivali and Hazira while 646 nutrition In partnership with the National Association
kits were distributed to HIV-positive children in Hazira and Jamnagar. for the Blind (NAB), Aravind Eye Care ASMAN – Technology to monitor maternal and neonatal health
The Reliance Anti-Retroviral Therapy Centre, run in collaboration with and Sankara Eye Foundation, Drishti has
National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) and Maharashtra State supported 19,500+ corneal transplants since A large percentage of maternal and neonatal mortality can
AIDS Control Society at the Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital in Lodhivali, 2003, with 207 corneal transplants conducted be traced back to the critical period during child delivery.
counselled over 10,000 people and provided free consultations to in FY 2020-21. Alliance for Saving Mothers and Newborns (ASMAN) is an
4,373 people with HIV/AIDS. The annual Drishti Art and Essay Competition innovative facility-based decision and monitoring tool that
On World Menstrual Hygiene Day (May 28, 2020) and International for children and grandchildren of Reliance helps bring down the mortality rate. This award-winning
Women’s Day (March 8, 2021) various women health and wellness employees was conducted virtually with app enables healthcare workers to provide high quality care
initiatives were held. In Nagothane, 200 adolescent girls and SHG ~4,000 participants. during the crucial 48-60-hour period around childbirth.
members were advised on menstrual hygiene, while in Dahej, a pocket- The international Hindi Braille newspaper, This unique and relevant health initiative of Reliance
book in Gujarati was distributed to over 3,000 women and girls by Seva Reliance Drishti, published in association Foundation, undertaken in collaboration with Bill and
Rural in collaboration with UNICEF. with NAB and a Braille table calendar for the Melinda Gates Foundation, MSD for Mothers, Tata
Reliance Foundation also conducted awareness programmes in visually impaired, reaches readers across Trusts and the United States Agency for International ASMAN has won Special Jury Mention Award under the
Development (USAID), is a perfect example of creating
Maharashtra for 300 women and 80 young people on common cancers. India and 15 other countries. Circulation Excellence in Social Initiative category during the annual
of the newspaper was halted during the social impact by leveraging technology. The project, Healthcare Excellence Awards of the Federation of Indian
Under its rehabilitation work, Reliance Foundation also provided lockdown and reactivated in November 2020 implemented in 81 government health facilities across eight Chambers of Commerce and Industry in September
financial assistance to the elderly, abandoned children and with a limited edition of 1,620 copies. Since districts in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan that face high 2020.
impoverished families of the Yanam Old Age Home in Puducherry. then, efforts are on to gradually increase delivery load, has helped over
It assisted in holding a subsidised feeding programme for 2,000 (per circulation. 7+ lakh mothers and newborns since its inception in 2015.
day) aged people and people in need in Yanam and neighbouring 7+ lakh mothers and their
villages though a mobile food truck. At the community level, vision screening During 2020-21, the app registered over 1.36 lakh mothers, newborns
camps and mobile eye clinics are conducted detecting 51,000 high risk cases. During the year of the
Reliance Foundation provided masks and soaps apart from rice and regularly across plant locations. There have pandemic, the programme team built the capacities of over Helped by ASMAN since 2015
vegetable kits to 40,000 families and sanitisers to 20,000 people in the been 1.6 lakh consultations since inception 900 healthcare providers and extended remote support
neighbourhood of Yanam. and 14,000+ individuals have been detected to the intervention facilities. COVID-19 guidelines were also 1.36+ lakh mothers
with refractive error and provided spectacles. built into the app for the front-end workforce. Registered on the app in 2020
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40,000 families Through these healthcare initiatives, Reliance Foundation aims to support the nation with
Received essentials kits in Yanam 14,000+ individuals state-of-the-art health infrastructure along with an array of primary to tertiary health services for
Have been detected with refractive errors wider public access to healthcare and towards improved public health.
since inception and provided spectacles