SDG 3: Good Health and Well-being

3Health outreach in the community

UPES students and staff run health programmes in the communities around our Dehradun campuses, including free medical camps and menstrual health awareness drives.

UPES takes health care to neighbouring villages and reaches underserved families first.

The UPES Department of Social Outreach leads this work with NGOs, hospitals and local health workers.

Health care where it is hardest to reach

• Free health camps. Doctors and nurses from the UPES Infirmary hold camps in underserved villages, including Misraspatti, Kharakhet and Dhaulas, checking blood pressure, blood sugar, heart rate and ENT health, and giving out medicines free. Source: DSO Community Engagement & Social Impact Report, page 12.

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• Medical mobile van. With Sewa Bharti, a free mobile van has taken a doctor and medicines to nearby villages since 2008. Student volunteers help patients understand their medication and care. Source: DSO Community Engagement & Social Impact Report, page 3.

  

• Ending period poverty. Through Project Lakhon Khawahishen, UPES and the women-led organisation DivIn Pro give reusable menstrual cups to about 1,200 women from the university's ground staff and 13 villages. Source: DSO Community Engagement & Social Impact Report, page 5.

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• NSS volunteers. NSS UPES, a unit of more than 450 student volunteers, runs blood donation and cleanliness drives in the community. On a village day during its 7-day camp, volunteers used nukkad natak (street theatre) to talk with villagers about hygiene, menstrual health and sustainability.

  

• Keeping children safe. Children's well-being includes their safety. Under the Srijan programme, the UPES Legal Aid Clinic and CSR team ran "Good Touch, Bad Touch" body-safety sessions for children at government schools in Kharakhet, Misraspatti, Kandoli and Hariyawala. In November 2023 the Legal Aid Clinic also held a camp at Government Junior School, Upper Kandoli, on road safety and good and bad touch. Source: Good Touch, Bad Touch awareness, Srijan programme (LinkedIn), Legal Aid Clinic awareness camp, November 2023 (LinkedIn).

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• Adolescent girls' health. The UPES Social Internship Team and student society GS3 worked with an NGO in Than village to talk with girls aged 13 to 18 about reproductive and sexual health, and handed out sanitary kits. Source: UPES takes a step towards supporting adolescent girls.

Promoting healthy living

• Blood donation. A three-day drive across both campuses in April 2024, run with Mahant Indresh Hospital and IMA Dehradun, collected 1,303 units of blood. Source: DSO Community Engagement & Social Impact Report, page 12.

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• Nutrition. For Poshan Maah, the School of Health Sciences & Technology trained Anganwadi and ASHA workers from Sahaspur Block in nutrition, food fortification and hygiene, with low-cost recipes using local ingredients. Source: DSO Community Engagement & Social Impact Report, page 13.

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• Fitness. To promote healthy living, about 300 students and 100 staff ran the 5 km Run for Tomorrow marathon in September 2023 to promote healthy lifestyles and a drug-free society. Source: DSO Community Engagement & Social Impact Report, page 8.

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• Menstrual equity. Healthy living includes menstrual health: UPES student Ritika Panwar founded Project Yoni, an NGO that breaks stigma around menstrual health, and its launch session at UPES brought gynaecologist Dr Vidushi Jain to speak to faculty, staff and students on menstrual hygiene. UPES has also partnered with Sirona in a drive to make it the first pad-free university in India. Source: A UPES student's quest to make periods pain-free for women, DSO Community Engagement & Social Impact Report, page 9, Adgully on Sirona and UPES.

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• Nutrition street plays. In May to July 2026, B.Sc. Nutrition students took street plays into underserved communities to bust myths about anaemia and explain why fortified foods matter in everyday diets. Source: Nutrition street play (LinkedIn).

  

• School health camp. As part of a 7-day NSS camp, UPES students ran a Health Day camp for about 100 children at a government school in Pondha, designed as hands-on activities rather than a lecture. Source: NSS school health camp (LinkedIn).

  

• Anaemia-free campus. The "Anemia: An Unconquered Battle" campaign raises awareness of anaemia, which affects more than half of women of reproductive age in India, alongside on-campus health screening. Source: Anaemia-free campus (LinkedIn).

  

• Cancer awareness. On 8 November 2024, NSS UPES held "Karkrog Janjagranam", a Vivechna session at the Old Amphitheatre in Bidholi. Guest speakers Charanpal Singh and Ghazala Shaheen explained the types and severity of cancer, why early detection matters, and how healthy living helps prevent it. Students, faculty and volunteers then wrote their messages of support on a Cancer Fight Wall (event report).

  See also: Cancer Awareness Day: Karkrog Janjagranam in Events and activities.

  

  

Health awareness weeks and legal-aid outreach, 2024–25

Source: UPES Annual Report 2024–25^[12]

This section supports UN targets 3.1, 3.2, 3.4, 3.5, 3.7, 3.8 and 3.c.