Ghazipur Children's Hospital
  • Disease area(s): Child health
  • Company(ies): Pfizer
  • Partner(s): Sabera Foundation
  • Since 2004
  • Program type(s): Capacity Building - Support
  • Developing country(ies): India
  • Contact(s):
  • IFPMA ID: 1183

Pfizer Spain is supporting the Sabera Foundation, which runs a small Children's Hospital in Ghazipur, in the outskirts of Calcutta in India. The hospital provides specialized residential health care and rehabilitation services for the children of poor families. Pfizer helps fund maintenance of the building and the hospital's operating expenses infrastructures and makes available the company's expertise in health care. Therapeutic areas covered include physiotherapy, tuberculosis and ophthalmology. The hospital also provides out-patient support to the surrounding community.

As a part of its corporate social responsibility strategy, Pfizer allows its employees to work at the Ghazipur Hospital, performing support, management and medicine distribution activities for two to four weeks, as well as helping with rehabilitation tasks. To date, 74 Pfizer volunteers have participated in this program.

 

Partners: Sabera Foundation, Ghazipur Hosptial
Countries: India