New Delhi, June 12, 2018: Having excelled as a strong player in the health insurance sector on the business front, Apollo Munich Health Insurance today took another leap to contribute in empowering women from economically and socially weaker sections of the society by launching its flagship initiative ROSHINI, and including them in its purpose of ‘Making India Health Confident’. Under this initiative, Apollo Munich along with Apollo Medskills Limited plans to impart free paramedic education to around 10,000 underprivileged women across semi-urban India. The program, with a special focus on women and girl child, aims to empower them with not just equal opportunities to be skilled and financially independent but also help address one of the biggest concerns of healthcare sector in India i.e. shortage of well-trained paramedics. Commenting on this occasion, Mr. Antony Jacob, CEO, Apollo Munich Health Insurance, said, “Over the last 10 years, we at Apollo Munich have touched more than 30 million lives and have been successfully fulfilling our purpose of ‘Making India Health Confident’ with our uncomplicated and innovative product offerings and services. Taking this endeavor forward, we now want to take a leap by strengthening the position of women in the society by including them in our purpose”.