Smile Foundation, a national level development organisation, is looking for corporate partners for its mobile hospital 'Smile on Wheels' programme in Punjab primarily in cities like Chandigarh, Ludhiana, Amritsar, Jalandhar and Bhatinda.

To give a boost to its healthcare services, Smile Foundation will add another 20 mobile hospitals to its already existing fleet.

Announcing the initiative for Punjab, Naresh Chaudhary, COO of Smile Foundation said “Punjab has been on our focus for some time now as we were in the lookout for corporate sponsorship for our ‘Smile on Wheels’ in Punjab. This is an opportunity for corporates and organization to partner with us by supporting our programme and thereby delivering their corporate social responsibility initiatives primarily in the healthcare sector.”

The ‘Smile of Wheels’ programme is currently reaching out to more than 7 Lakhs people deprived of quality healthcare. The programme currently reaches out to more than 249 villages and urban slums across 8 states of India primarily Uttarakhand, Orissa, Maharashtra, New Delhi, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, and Gujarat.

The programme is a national level mobile hospital, which aims at providing comprehensive health care services to the underprivileged population in remote rural areas and urban slums who have little access to healthcare facilities or are too poor to afford it.

The mobile hospitals provide OPD- curative services for common ailments, ante and post-natal services, has provision to identify high risk pregnancies, immunization (Mother and Child), conducts minor surgeries/ dressing of wounds, basic pathological services (Blood, Urine), referral services for serious patients requiring hospitalization, distribution of condoms, oral contraceptive pills, insertion of IUD, treatment of malnutrition cases, free distribution of iron, folic acid and Vitamin A tablets to women and children in need.