Healthcare Partners Provide Free Service

Understanding the noble and selfless cause behind the Annapoorna Breakfast Program and its positive impact on school-going children, several healthcare-based organizations have come forward to support the monitoring and treatment of the served children. Leveraging Annapoorna’s extensive penetration into remote underprivileged areas, these organizations have found ways to reach their offerings to deserving and needy populations. For instance, vision-based companies like Essilor Foundation, E-drishti and Narayana Nethralaya have partnered with Annapoorna to organize free eye camps and have even provided spectacles to school children as part of these camps either free of cost or with deep discounts. The team of medical doctors at Annapoorna also regularly partners with NGOs like the Shri Sai Healing Trust and hospitals like RV Dental College to conduct regular medical and dental camps in rural areas. Additionally, during such camps, the medical team spreads awareness of hygiene and good habits, distributes supplements and hygiene kits, and provides de-worming tablets. Often, critical health issues are detected which have been previously neglected either due to lack of awareness or because of the lack of accessibility to secondary and tertiary medical facilities. When such abnormalities are picked up during regular health testing, we have referred their cases to larger hospitals which have taken up these cases and treated the children free of cost. In some critical cases where surgical intervention was required, the interventions were even performed at these hospitals free of cost.