Improvement pertaining to Healthcare has been witnessed unevenly across the nation, especially the North East, with wide urban-rural variations and limited access to the medical services. The region faces a number of challenges, the most crucial being lack of doctors and specialists leading to low doctor-population ratio in the region. APPL Foundation, along with its partner organisations, tries to bridge the gap between the rural healthcare requirement and its availability.
APPL Foundation’s objective is to provide access to quality healthcare to the rural areas in North East India. We start by equipping the Referral Hospital and Research Centre (RHRC) at Chubwa with state of the art healthcare facilities. We then connect make these facilities accessible to the remote regions with the use of cutting-edge technology, via e-Health Centres set up in collaboration with Hewlett Packard. We create awareness and provide basic medical care to the population through medical camps and weekly outreach programmes.
Active Projects
Referral Hospital & Research Centre (RHRC), Chubwa
Referral Hospital and Research Centre (RHRC), a 75-bed, secondary care hospital, was conceptualized by Tata Tea Ltd in 1989 and was set up at Chubwa tea estate by Tata Tea in 1994. RHRC has been offering treatment at minimal cost to the general public. The hospital works on a non-profit…
Project ‘3 F & MHM, North Bank’- A programme on Menstrual Hygiene Management & Fungal Disease
APPL Foundation launched Project “3F & MHM, North Bank” across seven APPL estates of North Bank and Misa to provide fungal-free health and a dignified menstrual hygiene practice space at work for the women of these tea estates. The programme was officially launched on April 21st in the Misa Cluster…
Menstrual Hygiene Education Programme
The biological phenomenon of menstruation in women is a taboo topic which the community and even the women who undergo the cycles refuse to discuss. Myth and superstition disguised as age old customs compel women to follow unhygienic and discriminatory practices which adversely affect their health. The idea of women…
Fungal Free Frock (3 F) Project
Women constitute more than 50% of a tea estate population in Assam. Women busy working in the estates and house tend to ignore their own health. Although various programmes have been introduced by the government, only a few are aware of, and access these programmes. One of the hidden health…
Eye Screening Camps
Vision Spring, in association with Amalgamated Plantations and APPL Foundation, conducted a vision screening program for the estate workers of three plantations in Dibrugarh, Assam. VisionSpring screened more than 4,000 tea estate workers and allied tea plantation populations with the objective of making the tea estate a refractive error free…
Eye camp by Vision Spring at Hathikuli Tea Estate
Target polpulation- 4500Population covered- 4500Duration of the camp- 2nd December to 21st December, 2022Disabled children covered- 18 The Eye camp at Hathikuli provided access to eye care services, especially in rural or remote areas of Kaziranga, where access to eye care is limited. It provided an opportunity for early detection and treatment of eye…
eHealthcare Project
With healthcare facilities in rural India being scarce and ill-equipped, APPL Foundation partnered with Hewlett-Packard (HP) to create a symbolic milestone in the arena of healthcare in Assam and North Bengal. HP and APPL Foundation together set out on our journey to deliver specialist medical aid to remote locations, where…