Ranbaxy and Daiichi Sankyo step up community initiatives

Ranbaxy Laboratories, country’s largest drug maker and Daiichi Sankyo has step up community initiative in India with the flag-off of two free Mobile Rural Healthcare Service Vans for District Dewas in Madhya Pradesh. This is the first CSR programme being undertaken jointly by the two companies as part of their commitment towards global social contribution activities.

This initiative will be implemented through Ranbaxy Community Healthcare Society (RCHS), a non profit organization established by Ranbaxy. RCHS is already running mobile healthcare services in district Dewas. The two new Mobile healthcare service vans extend the reach and further reinforce and strengthen the medical services being provided in the region.

Recently, the company received conditional market approval from the country's drug regulator for its anti-malaria drug. The company is likely to launch country's first privately-developed medicine and ending more than a decade of failures.