United Way of Mumbai:
A team of 140 employees from GSK India ran the Mumbai Marathon's Corporate Challenge Dream Run to support three varied causes Make-A-Wish Foundation, Americares India Foundation, Committed Communities Development Trust.
Institute of Child Health, Kolkata:
In 2009, GSK India supported the Institute of Child Health a 50 year old Non-Government organization with its headquarters in Kolkata. ICH is not only a children's Hospital, but an institution with integrated services, which includes preventive and curative care for children and also a centre for teaching and research. ICH's main goal is to offer medical and surgical services to the ailing, and especially, the underprivileged children of the society. ICH is a hundred and fifty bed hospital. On an average there has always been 100% occupancy in the indoor facility throughout the year, while around 62000 patients including new and old patients are treated annually in the outdoor clinics.
In February 2008, ICH has established a fully equipped Level III NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit) unit. In the six month period after its establishment, the total number of admissions in this unit was 161, an increase from the earlier 118 admissions. More high risk sick neonates were admitted in the level II care NICU due to availability of modern gadgets essential for survival of high risk neonates. The Neonatal mortality rate also came down from 18 (15.4%) to 14 (8.7%).
As ICH serves mainly the underprivileged children it cannot increase the charges of NICU, which is significantly cheaper in comparison to other hospitals having this type of Unit. The trust board of the hospital has now decided to extend this unit by increasing the number of beds thus strengthening the NICU service. ICH now proposes adding an eighteen bedded step down NICU Level II care unit and has requested support from GSK for the same. The support requested was for setting up an extension of NICU - Phase II. This step down unit would be a high tech NICU unit, which will be an additional support to infants who have recovered from their primary critical stage but still require being under intensive care.
This additional unit will help in the following ways:
The number of refusal of admission of referred cases of sick newborns will come down. This unit will be the biggest NICU with 29 beds in the city.
The relative low cost to run the new proposed level II NICU will help ICH to compensate a part of the huge expenditure in the Level III NICU already existing and thus the economic viability of both the units will be reached.
GSK supported ICH in May 2009, by way of Cash donation to set up a technically sound NICU step down Unit for the Hospital.
TANKER (Tamilnadu Kidney Research Foundation) Chennai:
In May 2009, GSK India supported TANKER, a non-profit registered Charitable Trust founded on June 30th 1993 with the purpose of helping underprivileged patients with kidney failure. The foundation offers dialysis at very subsidized rates to the patients who come from very remote areas such as Arakonam, Villivakkam, and Thiruvallore just to have their dialyses and lead a healthy life. Most of the patients are elderly people, single mothers and widows. The organization also covers the cost of transplantation and medication. GSK supported Tanker by way of cash donation to help them buy a dialyses unit.
Upgradation of Laboratory and Educational support for three schools in Nashik:
Support to less privileged students from DD Bytco boys school, Pushpavati Rungta Kanya Vidyalay and Niradhar Swavalambhan Samiti
H1N1 Awareness Campaign with Municipal Corporation:
GSK India also took active steps by collaborating with the Mumbai Municipal Corporation in spreading awareness of swine flu. There were a number of promotional initiatives that were taken that included release of advertisements, creation of bus panels, posters, etc amongst other initiatives.
Niradhar Swavlamban Samiti School:
Support was provided to upgrade the school infrastructure and for supporting 450 children with the school stationery.
St. Jude India Childcare Centre:
The non-profit organisation, started with an idea to provide a safe and clean environment for children to recuperate following the treatment for serious chronic diseases, was supported by GSK India by way of infrastructure support for their new center at Kharghar, New Bombay.
Laboratory at Municipal school:
A school science laboratory at Mankhurd, Mumbai, run by Children's Aid Society was lent financial support for upgrading its infrastructure and equipments. Currently, the school provides education to around 1600 students from under privileged, marginalized families including students from the Government remand home.
United Way of Mumbai:
The not for profit organisation Save the Children was lent support by 60 employees of GSK India by participating in the Mumbai Marathon's Corporate Challenge dream run.
Donation of a mammography machine:
The Cancer Patients Aid Association was supported with a donation for a mammography machine for their center in Mumbai in 2008. This center aims at prevention of Breast cancer by propagating prevention & early detection of the disease.
Upgrading infrastructure for Shelter Home:
The Company supported the Salvation Army, an NGO, in upgrading infrastructure facilities of its Shelter Home for children of destitute at Ahmednagar, Maharashtra.
The Karnataka Welfare Association for the Blind:
The Company supported the not for profit organisation by way of donation towards buying educational materials and development equipments.
Child Fund Association, Bangalore:
Donations were made by GSK India to take care of the educational expenses of the lesser privileged children at the centre.
