GAIL (India) Limited, a Navratna PSU and India's flagship Natural Gas company has supported the third mobile health care unit for Delhi NCR.

This unit targets approximately 1.5 lac people in urban slums of Delhi. It brings affordable, integrated and clinically advanced, quality healthcare services within the reach of these marginalized people. The health van enables prevention, diagnosis, as well as treatment services.

Smile on Wheels takes well-equipped mobile vans along with specialized doctors, nurses and medicines to villages and slums where there are no government health care facilities or where the available services are inadequate. Each van is stationed in an urban centre usually with a static hospital that acts like a referral centre and covers the vicinity of around 25 kms visiting 2-3 villages every day.

GAIL has been engaged in planned community and social benefit programmes, carried out under the Special Component Plan (SCP) and Tribal Sub Plan (TSP) since 1992. Subsequently in 2002, a comprehensive CSR policy was adopted by the Board, wherein 1% of PAT was allocated as annual CSR budget. CSR programmes are taken up at almost 36 work centers and Zonal offices located across the country, focusing at development and empowerment of the people belonging to socially, economically and under-privileged segment of the society, especially in the neighborhood of their operational projects.

GAIL’s investment in Health Care programmes has made a significant impact in terms of providing better healthcare to the under-privileged section of the society. Some of the important CSR initiatives taken under this head include provision of ambulances, organizing medical camps, providing wide range of medical equipments like TMT machine, operating microscope, ECG machines, haemodialysis machine, X-Ray machine etc, to various hospitals..