Accessible and Affordable Healthcare
Healthcare is a key focus area of ICICI Bank’s CSR initiatives. In order to meet this objective, ICICI Foundation has structured its activities to provide accessible and affordable healthcare to the weaker sections of the society. These activities depend on the specific requirements of people in different regions across the country.
Supporting Treatment
Through ICICI Foundation, ICICI Bank is providing ambulances, blood donation and blood transport vehicles, dialysis machines and other health equipment to government and charitable hospitals. The Bank has also been providing support to underprivileged individuals for cancer care, bone marrow transplant, eye check-ups and organ transplants. Since inception, over 1.5 million individuals have been supported for availing various treatments through our interventions at 400 hospitals.
In fiscal 2023, 800,000 individuals were positively impacted through our healthcare initiatives in 200 hospitals. ICICI Foundation is supporting various hospitals and health institutions, including the Tata Memorial Centre and the Indian Cancer Society, to provide cardiac, cancer and eye surgeries to the economically weaker sections of the society. The Foundation has also conducted eye care camps and spread awareness in several states. Additionally, financial support has been extended for surgeries for underprivileged children with congenital heart disease.
ICICI Foundation launched an organ transplant project as a pilot initiative during fiscal 2023. The initiative involves providing support for transplantation and undertaking awareness drives. For this purpose, grant assistance was provided to the Transplants Help the Poor Foundation in Mumbai, Maharashtra. This organisation works through a network of hospitals across the country to ensure seamless transplantation of organs. ICICI Foundation has also supported Maharaja Yashwant Rao Hospital in Indore, Madhya Pradesh for bone marrow transplants in fiscal 2023.
Blood Donation and Transportation
The requirement for blood outstrips the available supply. Shortage of blood in the blood banks is a cause of concern in India. Infrastructure and equipment available for handling collection and storage of blood is scarce.
Blood collection and transport van donated to a hospital in Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
This sometimes leads to contamination and wastage of blood donated. Further, the challenge of transporting blood from the camps to the blood banks is huge across the country.
ICICI Foundation has started providing vehicles for transporting blood to bridge this gap. In fiscal 2023, 14 blood collection vehicles and 16 transportation vehicles were provided to hospitals. These vehicles, which are smaller in size compared to large patient vehicles, are equipped with blood storage facility to assist organisations in areas where large patient vehicles cannot travel.
Dialysis Support
ICICI Foundation has been providing dialysis machines to hospitals that treat kidney patients at a nominal or no cost in the country, particularly in the smaller cities. ICICI Foundation is now expanding the programme by reaching out to more government hospitals. It has supported nearly 300,000 dialysis sessions since fiscal 2022.
Over 150,000
Dialysis sessions in fiscal 2023
More than 500
Dialysis machines provided since inception
ICICI Bank Commits ₹12 Billion to
Tata Memorial Centre
In June 2023, ICICI Bank committed to donate ₹12 billion towards Tata Memorial Centre (TMC), a premier institution that runs cancer treatment and research centres across the country.
ICICI Bank will donate the money from its CSR funds to set up three new buildings, covering a combined area of 750,000 square feet, at Navi Mumbai in Maharashtra, Mullanpur in Punjab and Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh. The funds will also be used to equip the buildings with state-of-the-art machines.
With the largest contribution from any institution to TMC, ICICI Foundation will implement the initiative, which is likely to be completed by 2027. The initiative will enhance comprehensive cancer care services in different regions of the country by providing patients access to advanced and latest cancer therapies.
The new centres of excellence in oncology treatment will provide advanced and evidence-based therapies to nearly 25,000 new patients a year, doubling their present capacity and providing a significant boost to the country’s cancer treatment infrastructure. They will also serve as regional referral centres and mitigate the need for patients to travel long distance to visit the Tata Memorial Hospital at Parel in Mumbai.
The centre at Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra will be equipped with state-of-the-art radiology facilities, including CT scanner and MRT, a new facility for outdoor patients, laboratories, and a radiotherapy facility for in-patients. These facilities, located under one roof, will help reduce waiting time significantly for investigations and hence enhance the quality of treatment.
The centres at Mullanpur, Punjab and Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh will provide an array of advanced equipment and therapies required to treat paediatric and haematological cancer. The facilities will include intense chemotherapy, bone marrow transplantation, radiation therapy and newer immunotherapies like CAR-T cell, which are available only at super specialised centres.
ICICI Foundation's Social Initiatives
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