Smile’s Mobile Hospital for Tamil Nadu

Smile Foundation is launching Smile on Wheels, its mobile hospital programme, in Tamil Nadu by joining hands with LifeLine Multi Speciality Hospitals, Chennai.

This is the eighth project under Smile on Wheels programme across as many states in India. Out of it, six projects are already operational in the states of Uttarakhand, Orissa, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and West Bengal. The project will also be launched in Delhi, very soon.

Dr J S Rajkumar, Founder & Chairman of LifeLine Group, says the group is glad to be associated with Smile Foundation for this innovative venture. Dr. Rajkumar, a renowned surgeon, is also a known philanthropist.

The LifeLine Hospitals Group, under the leadership of Dr Rajkumar and his dedicated team of doctors, has conducted thousands of free consultations and surgeries in 10 years of its existence. The group has been very actively involved in tsunami relief too.

Objective of the Project

Smile on Wheels aims to take comprehensive health care services (preventive, promotive and curative) to rural remote villages and reaching out to the most underprivileged but needy people across the country. The programme intends to bring medical expertise from nearby urban centres/ cities to the rural areas and urban slums.

Health Services on Offer

The project provides necessary services such as OPD, Ante-natal, post-natal services, identification of difficult pregnancy and referral for institutional care, Immunization - Mother & children, Minor surgery, BP examination, X-ray, ECG, First Aid, Distribution of Iron Folic tablets, Vit-A Prophylaxis, Treatment of mal-nutrient cases, etc. The project also provides referral services to the patients by having partnered with credible hospitals and health experts in the field.

How it Works

These projects have been reaching out to deserving villages in the outreach where no alternative health services exist and provide the essential health care services under expert medical practitioners. The mobile medical vans run by SMILE have been covering a diameter of 20-50 kms from its centre/ base and visit 2-3 villages a day on a regular basis.

Outlook and Future Plan

With enthusiastic response received from the five states during the first phase of the implementation of the programme, the Foundation wishes to partner with more organizations to realize the aim of running 30 such vans across the country. This financial year alone, Smile Foundation has projected to add another 5 ‘Smile on Wheels’ projects across India.

LifeLine Hospitals: A New Chapter of Partnership

Smile Foundation appreciates the spirit of philanthropy and social commitment of LifeLine Group, Chennai and looks forward to a very productive partnership for providing medi-care facilities to thousands of deprived and underprivileged people.

Smile welcomes LifeLine Hospitals Group to its Family