The Jindal Steel and Power limited (JSPl) Foundation, the CSR arm of the JSPl, in association with the Hewlett Packard (HP) set up a healthcare centre at Jamunda Jungle village of Banarpal block in the district on Wednesday.
Chief District Medical Officer Dr Basanta Kumar Panda inaugurating the new facility said villagers can avail the free health services in the centre.
Appreciating the initiative Panda said the district health administration welcomes such community oriented initiative by JSPl and would extend all its support to make the health centre effective in providing basic services to the villagers.
JSPl executive director (in-charge) DK Saraogi said, “JSPl has been taken up several community based initiatives under its CSR programme to improve the quality of lives of people residing in the vicinity of its plant at Angul.”
At present, services like general health check-up, vision correction, diabetic check-up and others would be provided and in near future this would be upgraded to provide specialist consultation.
Among others, JSPl CSR and R vice-president SK Sharma, HR and ES head Alok Malhotra, Chief Medical Officer Dr BK Dash, CSR head Puspalata Satapathy and AGM Dr Sanjeev Kumar Dwivedi were present.