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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
            19,500 specialised consultations                            73,700 beneficiaries
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            For people with HIV in Lodhivali and Hazira                 Of the 95 blood camps nsultations
                                                                        conducted in FY 2020-21
                                                                         Conducted since inception
            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
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