Healthcare
Since its inception in 1996, Infosys Foundation has been working relentlessly towards creating affordable and accessible healthcare for all communities. With focus on pregnancy, maternal, and newborn healthcare, the Foundation has gone a step ahead in connecting technology to healthcare in a way that impacts even beneficiaries who are not well-versed in technology.
The Foundation strives to move the needle in creating opportunities to ensure equitable access to healthcare for all.
Protecting newborns through technology
Infosys Foundation partners with C-CAMP to use technology to improve the health of expectant mothers, newborns, and fetuses through public health centers in Karnataka.
Holistic renal-cardiovascular care to bridge healthcare gaps
Enhanced well-being for renal patients - Cath Lab (Interventional Suite), Vascular Access Center, and improved renal-cardiovascular care funded by Infosys Foundation at Institute of Nephra Urology, Victoria Hospital.
Waters of change: A collaborative move to fix an age-old problem
Infosys Foundation works with Visakha Jilla Nava Nirmana Samithi to make the dream of clean drinking water a reality for many tribal villages in Andhra Pradesh.
Giving every mother and child an equally healthy start
Infosys Foundation works with The Antara Foundation in Damoh, Madhya Pradesh, to eliminate gaps in maternal and childcare.
- Contributed funds to IIT Bombay for cancer research
- Granted a corpus fund to the Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi. The fund will be used to strengthen education, research, training, technology development, public communications, and practice in the area of public health in India
- Granted funds to the Medical Research Foundation, Chennai for the construction of new building to serve as a community center for performing free cataract surgeries on the poor
- Granted funds to the Cancer Institute (WIA), Chennai towards the setting up of a cancer registry and screening project – the HPV vaccination program
- Granted a corpus fund to the Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology, to set up an Infosys Chair and for research in new drug target discovery, and drugs targeting parasitical infections and cancer
- Granted funds to the Schizophrenia Research Foundation (I), Chennai, towards establishing a dementia care and resource center and for promoting positive mental health in schools and colleges
- Granted a corpus fund to the Vittala International Institute of Ophthalmology, Bengaluru. The interest from the fund is being used to provide eye care and related surgeries for the poor
- Funded the BMCDT Bone Marrow Registry, Bengaluru to establish a global bone marrow donor registry in India to help patients of South Eastern origin
- Granted a corpus fund to the Bengaluru Kidney Foundation. The interest from the fund is being used for providing dialysis to the poor
- Granted a fund to the Bengaluru Hospice Trust – Karunashraya. The interest from the fund is used to provide free palliative care to patients with life limiting illnesses
- Granted funds to the Sangini Mahila Sewa Cooperative Society, Mumbai for covering medical expenses of sex workers
- Provided medicines to aged and poor patients suffering from cancer, leprosy, defects of the heart / kidney, mental illnesses, and other major disorders. Donated to organizations such as Chitta Sanjeevini Charitable Trust to help distribute mental illness medicines to the poor in rural areas. Provided food for leprosy, tuberculosis, HIV-positive, and blind patients in Karnataka
- Constructed a dharmashala at Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology in Bangalore
- Donated ambulances to medical centers and hospitals in Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu; Gadag, B.R. Hills, and Dakshina
- Sponsored the purchase of a new CT scan machine, for the Ramakrishna Mission Hospital, Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh
- Donated high-tech surgical equipment to hospitals in Mysore, Bijapur, Bellary, Bangalore, and Hubli in Karnataka, and air conditioners to the Burn Ward, at Victoria Hospital, Bangalore. Purchased incubators, air conditioning units, neonatal resuscitation equipment, and refrigerators for Bowring Hospital, Bangalore
- Donated fluorescein angiography equipment to Shree Sharada Devi Eye Hospital, Pavagada, Karnataka
- Helped cancer patients by sponsoring the Mobile Clinic for cancer detection in rural areas through HCG Foundation
