Tata Steel Gives Better Health Facilities In Rural Orissa
~The Company has dedicated Six Air-Conditioned Cabins to
Koira Health Center~
Bhubaneswar, August 7, 2007
Tata Steel has dedicated six Air Conditioned Cabins to
the Community Health Centre (CHC) in Koira to provide better
health care for the people of Orissa. CHC Koira is the only
health centre in the Koira block, catering to a population
of around 35000 spread over 10 Panchayats having 180
Villages.
Prior to the newly constructed A/C Cabins the health
centre did not have a single cabin for the pregnant women
seeking treatment in the centre. This yeomen service by Tata
Steel would enable the patients of this region,
predominantly Adivasis to have easy access to health care
facilities. They will not have travel to Joda or Rourkela
hospital to obtain medical assistance now. In addition to
Air Conditioned Cabins, Tata Steel has also provided all the
required logistics like patient bed with mattress, bed side
locker, adjustable over bed table, attendant bed with
mattress, AC, geyser, water cooler, refrigerator and
telephone. The total project cost is Rs 17 lakhs.
The newly constructed cabins were inaugurated by Shri
John Deep, Sub-Collector, Bonai, and Dr. V.P. Sinha, G.M.
(Operations), FA&M Division, Tata Steel Ltd in the presence
of Dy. Director Mines, Koira Shri. S.N. Sahu, Forest Range
Officer, Md. Zamil, and doctors of Koira CHC and other
Government and many Senior Company officials including union
representatives.
Providing health facilities to the communities around it
has always been the priority for Tata Steel. The Company has
been upgrading health care facilities in the rural parts of
state of Orissa in general and its operational locations,
since it set foot in the state. Other such generous deeds of
the company include construction of an Intensive Care Unit
ICU in Bolangir and organizing a Mega Health Camp in the
remote areas of Malda in the Koira block, where more than
1500 patients were treated.
About Tata Steel
Established in 1907 by its Founder J N Tata, Tata Steel
is the flagship of Tata Group, the largest and most
respected business house in India having interests in Steel,
Automobiles, Telecom, IT, Energy, Hotels. The Tata Group
comprises around 90 companies with total turnover of US$22
billion, equivalent of around 3 per cent of India's GDP.
Tata Steel has one of the most modern steel making
facilities and is also one of the lowest cost producers of
steel in the world. It has been rated as the world's best
steel company for the past three consecutive years by World
Steel Dynamics. World over, Tata Steel currently has a
capacity of around 26 million tonnes per annum including its
recent takeover of Corus and has the second largest global
distribution network in 45 countries. Tata Steel aspires to
become 50 million tonne Steel Company by 2015. Tata Steel
which has also set benchmarks in the fields of corporate
social responsibility and corporate governance firmly
believes in improving the quality of life of its employees
and the communities it serves. Its relief operations have
always helped in providing comfort to the affected. One of
the major initiatives as a part of relief work has been the
construction of 609 house and 25 school-cum-cycle shelters
for the super cyclone affected victims of Orissa in 1999,
2001, 2004 and 2006.
