Launch of Lotus TMT Medical Bus as 1st of its kind in Eastern India

Kolkata: The implementation of Medical Buses are being done to help rural India get medical access anytime and anywhere. This initiative to launch East India’s largest hospital on Wheels, Lotus TMT Medical Bus which will be 32 feet by BDG Ramesh Goyal Seva Sansthan made by BDG Metal & Power Ltd. is supported by Anandalok Hospital (Saltlake). It is a key strategy to facilitate access to public health care particularly to people living in remote, difficult and unreached areas. The objective of this strategy is to take healthcare to the doorstep of populations, particularly rural, vulnerable and under-served areas.

The occasion was glittered by the presence of various eminent personalities like ; Sovandeb Chattopadhyay, Minister of Agriculture, Govt of WB; Sujit Bose, Minister of State for Fire Govt. of WB; Sayan Deb Chatterjee, State Secretary of West Bengal Trinamool Youth Congress; Dev Kumar Saraf, Founder Director of Anandalok Hospital; Ramesh Chand Goyal, Chairman of Goyal Group; Dr. Kunal Sarkar, HOD Cardiology and Vice Chairman Medica Super Speciality Hospital & many other eminent personalities.

This 32 feet Medical Bus is ready to hit the roads with all primary healthcare services in it like – Eye, Dental & ENT check-up and treatment, General Check-up, Pathological Laboratory, General OPD, ECG and X-ray Facilities along with many other services. Medicines and spectacles would also be provided inside to the ones who need it in this Mobile hospital.

Doctor consultation would be provided with a nominal charge of Rs. 10, Medicines would be given free of cost for the first time, Spectacles for Rs. 20, whereas Pathology, ECG and X-ray services would also be available at Rs. 20. A team of 4 Doctors, Lab & Ex-ray Technician and a patient counsellor would be present inside the bus.” Speaking to the media,  Ramesh Chand Goyal, Chairman of Goyal Group said, “Our main motive behind launching this bus was humble passion to serve the deprived people with an idea of serving people and to make healthcare accessible to the rural areas through technology integration and affordability. It is an initiative taken by BDG Ramesh Goyal Seva Sansthan. We are also exploring opportunities for cooperation with the Government of West Bengal and the Health Ministry of Bengal in order to reach out to the needy.”

On this occasion S Alok Goyal, Managing Trustee of BDG Ramesh Goyal Seva Sansthan said, “The purpose of this project is to promote value-based healthcare and to fill in the gaps connecting high-risk patients with primary and preventive healthcare. This initiative also aims at strengthening medical facilities to unreached places, and to reach people cut-off from the access to healthcare services.”