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Reaching out to the larger community around us ...................
The Samtel Group was founded with a vision
of building an institution which would achieve business excellence
while contributing to nation building by caring for the society
and environment. In its desire to play a significant role
beyond the boundaries of its factories in the communities
that reside around its plants, the Group founded the Samtel
Achrumal Medical Aid Trust (SAMA) in 1988.
Apart from health services, Samtel has been
playing an active role in times of calamity in the country.
Rs. Twenty lakh was donated to the Gujarat Relief Fund after
the major earthquake in the Kutch Region. Medicines worth
thousands of rupees were sent to Orissa when that state was
hit by a cyclone. SAMA also supports 'Vijaya', an NGO in Orissa,
that is involved in health care in the tribal belts of the
state besides providing safe drinking water to these areas
under the name of 'Project Jeevan Dhara'.
Through SAMA, Samtel has provided three mobile medical vans,
with trained medical staff, which are dedicated to providing
health care services to the communities around its plants
in Ghaziabad, Kota and Parwanoo.
SAMA has held a number of medical camps on maternal and child
health, immunization, blood donation and eye care in the last
three years because of which over 30,000 people have benefited.
In collaboration with I Care Hospital, NOIDA and Lion's Eye
Hospital, Ghaziabad, the trust has been conducting eye camps
for the detection and surgery of cataracts in patients. In
these camps, patients were also given IOL implants free of
cost. In addition to this, SAMA has also arranged First Aid
Camps for Kavad Yatris since 2001.
Our work continues and we plan to focus our efforts further
in the areas of maternal and child health as well as launch
vocational training and income generation programs in the
areas in which we operate in the coming days.
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