AIIMS Delhi launches App with distress button for women employees

All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi has launched the empowerment app for women employees called the AIIMS ICC.

On the occasion of International Women's Day on Tuesday, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi has launched the empowerment app - AIIMS ICC for its women employees. The app has a panic button that can be used to send a distress signal to the hospital security team.

Once the signal is sent, within a minute, the app will locate the women and a quick response team will be sent to the user of the app.

The app can be used as a signal to start a rescue operation for AIIMS Delhi female employees who get cornered in a tight situation.

Empowerment App contains information on POSH Act

The users of this app can also get to know about the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 also known as the POSH Act.

Moreover, AIIMS ICC can be used to directly file a complaint to the Internal Complaint Committee without the need to physically reach out to anybody for filing the complaint. Instead, the user can use the app to file the complaint from anywhere.

The AIIMS official release said that it has launched this app as a step in the direction of empowering the female employees across cadres at AIIMS. The app is one of the many activities that the internal complaints committee of AIIMS, New Delhi has undertaken in the last year.

The official statement reads, “The other activities being debates, CME (continued medical education), and poster competitions for male and female employees alike."

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