$2.4 million for public health in India |
Indian Americans have raised $2.4 million to carry out public health work in India.Raised at the second annual gala of WHEELS Global Foundation (WGF) in New York over the weekend, organisers of the event said $2 million of this was donated by Chirag Patel, co-CEO and chairman, Amneal Pharmaceuticals, and his family. This donation will go towards the soon-to-be established WHEELS India Niswarth (WIN) Foundation, which will be based out of the IIT-Gandhinagar and Indian Institute of Public Health-Gandhinagar campuses. The foundation will work on core areas of water and sanitation and maternal and child health groups.
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