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WWF India and Apollo Hospitals Foundation today announced continuation of their year-long partnership to provide medical support to forest department frontline staff and local communities across the conservation landscapes in which WWF-India operates. While frontline staff has to brave difficult terrain, harsh weather conditions, wildlife and poachers in their daily lives, forest-fringe communities are also faced with issues of human-wildlife conflict, and extreme climatic events for which medical assistance is required. This tie-up continues after one year of partnership.
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The continuing tie-up, to be effective from April 2017 for a one-year period, will extend immediate medical support to affected frontline staff of forest department and local community members in the states of Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Sikkim, West Bengal, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Kerala. The partnership covers quality medical treatment of patients that also includes air ambulance services in critical and emergency conditions.
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![Upasana Kamineni,Apollo Hospital,WWF- India,Apollo Hospital and WWF- India,Apollo Hospitals Foundation]( "This unique partnership between the two organizations will cover medical camps and cases including (but not confined to) grievous injury due to attacks by wild animals; fall from elevated areas (like hills or machines); accidents while patrolling invehicles (collision, falling off etc); burns during fire-fighting operations; injuries in crowd control operationsduring incidents of human-wildlife conflict ; medical emergencies during extreme climatic events, life threatening diseases like malaria, dengue etc; venomous bites/stings, and electrocution.")
This unique partnership between the two organizations will cover medical camps and cases including (but not confined to) grievous injury due to attacks by wild animals; fall from elevated areas (like hills or machines); accidents while patrolling invehicles (collision, falling off etc); burns during fire-fighting operations; injuries in crowd control operationsduring incidents of human-wildlife conflict ; medical emergencies during extreme climatic events, life threatening diseases like malaria, dengue etc; venomous bites/stings, and electrocution.
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![Upasana Kamineni,Apollo Hospital,WWF- India,Apollo Hospital and WWF- India,Apollo Hospitals Foundation]( "Ms. Upasana Kamineni Konidela Vice Chairperson, Apollo Hospitals Foundation said, \"We at Apollo Hospitals Foundation understand the perils that these frontline staff face and we are always there to support them in their endeavour to help conserve our wildlife\".")
Ms. Upasana Kamineni Konidela Vice Chairperson, Apollo Hospitals Foundation said, "We at Apollo Hospitals Foundation understand the perils that these frontline staff face and we are always there to support them in their endeavour to help conserve our wildlife".
