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Vedanta Limited, India’s leading metals, oil & gas, critical minerals, power, and technology conglomerate, reaffirmed its commitment to strengthening community healthcare and improving access to quality medical services across underserved regions of India. It invested over Rs. 50 crore towards healthcare initiatives under its social impact programmes, taking its total healthcare investment to around Rs. 130 crore over the past four years.
Aligned with this year’s World Health Day theme, ‘Together for health. Stand with science,’ the company said it is advancing data-driven, evidence-based and community-centric interventions that promote awareness, prevention, and equitable access to quality healthcare services.
Through a wide array of health interventions spanning over 1,100 villages across, Vedanta’s healthcare initiatives have been offered to over 30 lakh beneficiaries in FY26, advancing preventive care, early diagnosis, and health awareness among rural areas.
The company’s community programmes are designed to address healthcare needs across every stage of life—from early childhood to adulthood and elderly care. The company’s interventions span the full continuum of care, including preventive healthcare, early diagnosis, primary treatment access, and sustained disease management, ensuring continuity and depth of impact. Key focus areas include maternal and child health, adolescent well-being, nutrition security, and management of non-communicable diseases, supported by prenatal and postnatal care for mothers, early childhood interventions for children (0–6 years), and community-led awareness programmes that drive behavioural change. Through a combination of on-ground infrastructure, mobile healthcare delivery, digital enablement, and trained community health workers, Vedanta is bridging gaps in last-mile access and strengthening local healthcare ecosystems.
Its flagship Nand Ghar includes a network of modernized anganwadis that deliver integrated nutrition, early childhood care, and healthcare support at the grassroots level. It also supports BALCO Medical Centre in Naya Raipur, Chhattisgarh, a state-of-the-art cancer hospital providing affordable, world-class oncology care, which recently introduced the da Vinci Xi robotic surgical system, becoming the first private hospital in Central India to deploy this advanced cancer surgery technology.
Programmes such as Swasthya Saarthi and Mobile Health Vans are expanding access to doorstep healthcare, reducing dependence on distant medical facilities. Its community healthcare initiatives are implemented across the country in partnership with government health systems, local communities, and medical professionals.
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