Union Minister for Science and Technology and Earth Sciences and Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Dr. Harsh Vardhan and Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas Dharmendra Pradhan, together, inaugurated the Swasth Saarthi Abhiyaan (SSA) at Siri Fort Auditorium in New Delhi.
The Swasth Saarthi Abhiyaan (SSA) is a two month long mega campaign focusing on providing preventive healthcare to the auto, taxi and bus drivers of the region.
SSA, an initiative of Indraprastha Gas Limited (IGL), was inaugurated in the presence of various dignitaries including Members of Parliament, Officials of Delhi Police and other Senior Officials of the Ministry.
The SSA event is a unique initiative to address the major issues being faced by public transport drivers of the region, with almost all of them being users of CNG.
The Swasth Saarthi Abhiyaan is an initiative to provide basic health check up to the drivers. The 2 month long medical camp at various IGL stations in the Capital will provide free health checkup which includes blood test, sugar test, eye test with the help of doctors from St Stephen hospital.
In cases which require operation for cataract, amongst drivers, facility for the same will also be provided. IGL is planning to provide health insurance which would also include death benefits for drivers in the Capital.
The Minister launched the Swasth Saarthi web application which will enable the drivers undergoing the health checkups during the campaign to access their health records online from anywhere, in case of need.
