ITANAGAR, Dec 6: With the aim of reaching out to the people of the medically underserved areas of Arunachal Pradesh and Assam, Oil India Limited in partnership with Piramal Swasthya has launched mobile medical units named ‘Sparsha’.
Seven mobile medical vans were launched in Dibrugarh by the local MP and Union Minister of State, Food Processing Industries Rameshwar Teli in presence of MLA Lahoal Rituparna Baruah, ED (HR&A), Oil India Limited R K Talukdar, Head, Assam & North East Operations, Piramal Swasthya Hardeep Singh Bambrah and DC Dibrugarh Pallav Jha. Each van have a capacity of doctors, nurses, and pharmacists, two each in numbers and a total of 168 camps on a monthly basis will be conducted to provide free health check-ups, lab tests and medicines to the targeted and vulnerable population of these districts.
Piramal Swasthya Management and Research Institute (PSMRI) has been selected by Oil India Limited as the implementing partner for this project in its operational areas of Changlang district in Arunachal and Dibrugarh, Tinsukia & Charaideo districts in Assam. OIL has been conducting this kind of mobile dispensary services in both the states free of cost since 1980s. 

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