The week-long event, led by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn, shines a light on poverty housing in India and around the world, illustrating what can be accomplished when families, communities and nations come together to build a future where every man, woman and child has a decent place to live.
The homeowner families selected for JCWP 2006 at Lonavala currently live in dwellings that are temporary, dilapidated or otherwise substandard. Poor quality bricks and cement are common. In rural areas shelters often rely on mud, grass, leaves, reeds and bamboo. But this reality will soon change for these grateful families.
Wockhardt Hospitals'super specialist team of doctors are recognised both within India and across the world for their pioneering contributions in advanced super speciality treatment. Wockhardt's dedicated super speciality hospitals in Mumbai, Bangalore and heart hospitals in Nagpur and Hyderabad have success rates comparable to the best in the world.
As an associate hospital of Harvard Medical International,the global arm of Harvard Medical School,Wockhardt's core nursing practices in the areas of intensive care, operating rooms and ward care have been established by the HMI team. Experts from Harvard periodically conduct training programmes for the medical and paramedical team at Wockhardt Hospitals. This association with Harvard for quality-driven healthcare delivery has enabled Wockhardt Hospitals in Mumbai to earn the distinction of being the first super speciality hospital in South Asia to achieve accreditation from the Joint Commission International (JCI), the international arm of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organisations, which evaluates the standards of US hospitals. It is amongst 71 hospitals around the world to win this recognition. The accreditation requires a hospital to comply with almost 1,300 measurable standards.
