A number of community programmes are conducted by the hospitals of Manipal group. Health camps are periodically conducted in various parts of the country and patients diagnosed with problems are referred to the tertiary care hospitals. Most of them are given free treatment as outpatients. In case of patients requiring inpatient care , they are given treatment free of costs or on concessional rates. Out of these, many are support funded by Manipal Foundation to meet surgery costs or oncology treatment costs.

Azim Premji Foundation in association with Manipal Foundation, conducts a school for children of migrant construction workers at Epsilon Village. Basic health care costs and basic schooling costs are borne by the two Foundations together.

Health camps are conducted in government schools and children needing dental care, heart surgeries, or any other treatment are support funded by Manipal Foundation.

NEW PROJECTS FOR CREATING EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

• Manipal foundation has entered into an MOU with India Skills, an in house training academy, to train unemployed youth coming from economically under privileged families so that they are placed in various retail outlets throughout the country. This is an ongoing project and is already in place.
• The Foundation is also supporting the training of 200 unemployed rural youth in the installation and servicing of DTH connections. At the end of the six week training programme, the candidates will be absorbed by a reputed DTH service provider on a monthly salary. There is also a lot of scope for the candidates to do this as a self employment initiative.The DTH market has made inroads into the rural areas and this training provides an opportunity for the youth to earn a livelihood in the villages, thereby removing the need to migrate to cities. They are thus not uprooted from their families and their income gets added to the family income.