Expression of Interest for Project Implementation Hospital Partner

Expression of Interest for Project Implementation Hospital Partner

Dr. Shroff’s Charity Eye Hospital (SCEH) is one of the best specialty eye hospitals in North India, with highly accomplished and internationally recognized team of doctors, state of the art facilities and updated technologySCEH, is a more than 100-year non-profit organization with a tertiary care unitin Delhi and operating 5 secondary centresand more than 41 primary eye care centres across Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan State.

About Program

Commercial truck-drivers in India are an integral part of a transport sector catering to over one billion people. In 2007, Indian truck-drivers were estimated to number five to six million,and have been reported to lead a sedentary and unhealthy lifestyle, with no fixed routine and irregular sleeping patterns. This has considerably deleterious effects on the health of this mobile population.

Truck drivers in India have to travel long distances in their lifetime, on an extensive spread of National and State highways. Their occupation predisposes them to a multitude of risk factors such as prolonged sitting and motor vehicle driving, tight running schedules, reduced rest breaks, traffic congestion, sedentary nature of job, and resultant physical, psychological and behavioral problems.  It all affects their health status of driver and result in road accident incidents on the highways. To address these issues the concept of “Eicher Driver Care Program” envisaged by Eicher Group Foundation (EGF) and Dr. Shroff’s Charity Eye Hospital (SCEH).

Eicher Driver Care Program (A national level CSR program of Eicher Group Foundation) focuses to improve accessibility of primary quality eye and ear care services to truck drivers across the golden quadrilateral and national route. This program is a combination of both awareness activities and quality eye & ear healthcare services, which would help to improve better eye & ear health care practice among truck drivers and transport community.

Eicher Driver Care Program has been implementing in 15 states across the country successfully since 2016. Till Feb 2021, the program has benefitted 1,24,985 lives including 68,721commercial vehicle drivers across various states including Delhi NCR, UP, Assam, West Bengal, Bihar, Odisha, Karnataka, Tamilnadu, Maharashtra, Haryana, Punjab and Rajasthan. Furthermore, the program plans on creating a positive impact through the intervention on the lives of 1,50,000 truck drivers by from April 2020 to March 2023 across the entire country.

Joint efforts of EYE & ENT Hospitals, Eicher Group Foundation and SCEH will amplify better eye & ear healthcare practice and knowledge among the trucking community. Better eye and ear healthcare will facilitate better road safety and quality driving.

Existing Project Partner

Under this initiative, we have tied up with 8 major eye hospital networks across the country such as Arvind Eye Hospital - Salem, HV Desai Eye Hospital - Pune, AkhandJyoti Eye Hospital-Patna, Susrut Eye Hospital - Kolkata, Sri SankardevaNetralaya - Guwahati, TrilochanNetralaya - Sambalpur, Vittala Eye Hospital - Bangalore, and JLR Eye Hospital - Kanpur.

Purpose of Engagement

This program is planned to escalated to Rajasthan state through deployment of an Ophthalmic Mobile Van (Eye & Ear Screening) at Jaipur. SCEH seeks to engage an Eye Hospital based at Jaipur as regional project partner for implementation of the in entire Rajasthan area.

Required competencies

The Partner Hospital should have the following expertise:

• Jaipur based Eye Hospital proven experience at least 5 years in Community Eye / Ear Healthcareproject implementation.
• Equipped dedicated outreach teamto undertake program implementation, particularly in community areas in Rajasthan.
• Understanding and ability to communicate in local language

Program Partnership Benefits of Engagement

• Contribution towards untouched / underserved community i.e. truck driver and allied transport community
• Exposure to unique project implementation (Ophthalmic Mobile Van will be provided under this program)
• Brand building and visibility (through Mobile Van) in entire Rajasthan through the program intervention
• Build network and connecting to transport and corporate sector

Request to interested eye hospital to submit their interest along hospital profile on edcprogramho@gmail.com with subject line “Interest for Project Implementation Hospital Partner.”

Timeline: The last date for submitting this is 5th June’2021.