Chennai, February 23, 2026: Star Health and Allied Insurance Company Limited has launched 32 Arogya Seva Kendras (ASK) across nine states under its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programme to strengthen access to primary healthcare services at the community level.
The first centre was inaugurated in Egmore, Chennai. In Tamil Nadu, additional centres will be operational in Nagercoil, Thoothukudi, Tiruppur and Karur. Other locations in Phase 1 include cities in Karnataka, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal and Maharashtra.
The ASK clinics are being implemented in partnership with Piramal Swasthya, part of the Piramal Foundation. Services will be provided free of cost and include MBBS doctor consultations, screening for hypertension, diabetes and oral health conditions, laboratory diagnostics such as blood sugar and haemoglobin tests, distribution of medicines for common and chronic conditions, health counselling and pneumococcal vaccination support for eligible beneficiaries.
The initiative targets districts where hypertension prevalence ranges between 20% and 40% among adults, and diabetes prevalence reaches up to 29% in certain areas. Clinics will operate with dedicated medical teams and defined service protocols to ensure continuity of care and follow-up.
Anand Roy, MD & CEO, Star Health and Allied Insurance Company Limited, said, "India’s healthcare conversation must begin within the community. We cannot hospitalise our way out of the non-communicable disease (NCD) crisis; and we believe primary care is where healthcare equity begins.
When screening, medicines and follow-up are consistently accessible, complications are prevented before they become catastrophic. Institutions across the healthcare ecosystem have a shared responsibility to strengthen this foundation. Through this CSR initiative, we are contributing to that collective effort, and ensuring primary healthcare reaches people early, reliably and close to where they live."
Star Health is funding the capital and operational expenditure under its CSR allocation, while Piramal Swasthya will manage implementation and clinical governance.
Ajay Piramal, Chairman, Piramal Group, said, “Over the past 17 years, Piramal Foundation has worked across India’s most challenging geographies, guided by deep community engagement and systems transformation. This CSR partnership with Star Health Insurance builds on that legacy - bringing trusted, comprehensive primary care closer to communities, impacting over a million lives through accessible consultations, diagnostics, and free medicines.”
Pfizer India is supporting the pneumococcal vaccination component of the initiative.
Saral Gupta, Director Market Access, Pfizer India, said, "Adult immunization remains an overlooked yet vital component of India’s preventive healthcare framework. Our country bears 23% of the global burden of community-acquired pneumonia and strengthening access to vaccination, especially for high risk adult groups, is critical to lowering the overall impact of such vaccine preventable diseases.
We congratulate Star Health on making adult vaccination an integral part of their Arogya Seva Kendra initiative, and are pleased to continue supporting it with our expertise."
The outreach is expected to reach over one million individuals in districts identified with elevated non-communicable disease burden and limited primary healthcare access.
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