IOC helps Ranchi health centres get modern labour rooms

Ranchi district administration has signed an MoU with Indian Oil Corporation for setting up state-of-art labour rooms at primary health centres (PHC) in Nagri and Kuchu on the outskirts of the capital to facilitate safe institutional deliveries in rural areas as part of its endeavour to ramp up government health facilities.

At a formal function on Tuesday evening, the oil PSU committed to initially spend Rs 10 lakh for the project under its corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities, officials said.

Ranchi deputy commissioner Chhavi Ranjan said the health has been identified as one of the core sectors by IOC to utilise CSR funds. “Health and education are two priority sectors identified by the district administration as CSR activities. Last month, at a meeting with representatives of private and public sector companies, we had spoken of our focus areas and asked them to channelise CSR funds accordingly,” he said.

Ranjan said the administration had originally planned to set up modern labour labours in as many as four PHCs in the district. “But we are initially starting with two centres. We hope to get further cooperation from IOC for the remaining two PHCs in the coming months,” he said.

IOC DGM Pramod Ranjan said they have been working with the district administration on various projects in Ranchi, which has been classified as an aspirational district by Niti Aayog.