Health & Facilities

Ageing is a time of multiple illnesses and general disability. Besides an increased level of illness, the ageing process itself leads to certain disabilities such as low vision and blindness resulting from cataracts, deafness resulting from nerve impairment, loss of mobility from arthritis and a general inability to care for oneself. Furthermore, ageing is inevitable and thus of concern to each of us.

The number of persons above the age of 60 years is fast growing, especially in India. India has 76.6 million people at or over the age of 60, constituting about 7.7% of total population. The problems faced by this segment of the population are numerous owing to the socio-cultural changes within the Indian society. The major area of concern is the health of the elderly.

Older people have the right to basic age care facilities such as pensions, social security, health care etc. The well being of the older persons has been mandated in the Constitution of India. Article 41 of Indian Constitution deals with the State’s role in providing social security to the aged.

The Government of India is committed to provide an enabling environment to secure the goals of economic and social security for the elderly population. Health of its citizen is the government top agenda, and to provide health services across various sections of society the government follows a three-tiered public health system:

• Primary Health Centres (PHC) in villages
• District Hospitals
• Tertiary Care Hospitals

Besides, the government also provides health facilities such as CGHS to its retired central government officials. And Geriatrics Clinics are also being run in various major hospitals in the country especially for the senior citizens.

• CGHS
• Health Schemes

Ambulance and Nursing Services

S.L.No.	Name	Phone	Mobile
1.	Rana Ambulance Services	29913304,29911559	9811154783,9873354783
2.	Sewa Ambulance Service	65477915	9810723854,9810326643
3.	Cats/Centralised Accident & Trauma Services	1099, 102, 23951099, 23971099,23918932/20, 23930755/809/811	Not available
4.	Sharma Ambulamce Service	25498963	Not available
5.	Helpline Ambulance Services	24351358, 24358836	9810264129
6.	Sarvodaya Rescue Ambulance Services	9810075180, 9818191961	9818191961
7.	Delhi Ambulance Services	25791387, 26287670	9810077777
8.	Ravindra Ambulance Services	9810016496, 29054265, 26055535	9810016496
9.	Goodmans Rescue/Goodmans Health Care Services P Ltd.	29234665, 29231665, 29230685	9810012126, 9811412126
10.	JK Ambulance Service		9810212793, 9810546406
11.	Ambulance Noida Authority	102, 951202546546	Not available
12.	St. John Ambulance Brigade Parliament ST	23322237, 23720143	Not available
13.	Delhi Ambulance Services East of Kailash	25791387, 26422289, 26287670	9810077777
14.	Sahara Ambulance Service	25498963	9810209673
15.	Ambulance Pvt	26485487
16.	Chawla Ambulance Services	25701302	9811182069
17.	Kapoor Ambulance Service	26287670	9810077777

Services

S.L.No.	NAME	ADDRESS	PHONE
1.	THE TRAINED NURSES ASSOCIATION OF INDIA	Florence Nightingale Lane, L-17, Green Park (Main), New Delhi-110016 (INDIA)	91-11-26566665, Telefax- +91-11-26858304 Email-tnai.vsnl.net.in