Give it here

Small donations can go a long way. You can fund a patient in need at the five facilities listed below. And if you want more opportunities to donate as well as volunteer, you could write to Civil Society at support@civilsocietyonline.com

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CHILDBIRTH REFERRALS

In rural south Rajasthan women with complicated deliveries are taken to hospitals for a safe childbirth by Basic Healthcare Services (BHS).

There could be 30 such cases in a year and each one involves an expense of `25,000 which BHS incurs to save the lives of the women.

BHS runs what it calls AMRIT Clinics where it provides high quality healthcare with dignity to remote rural areas.

Normal deliveries are handled at these clinics. But complicated ones require hospitalization to save the mother and child. BHS refers them and gets them there, which might not otherwise have been possible.

Go to https//bhs.org.in

 

GENERAL SURGEON WITH HEART

Dr D.P.S. Toor is a general surgeon who never turns a patient away merely because they can’t meet some expense or the other. He funds the surgery and medicines from his own pocket.

As a donor you could help out when a needy patient must go under the knife for a hernia or an appendix  — or a similarly small procedure which has to be done.

Dr Toor practices at the Rural Medicare Centre (RMC) and has been a friend of Civil Society for almost two decades.

RMC is located at Saidullajab in Delhi and provides affordable medical care to patients who can’t access government and private hospitals.

Check out ruralmedicaresociety.org.

Or call Dr D.P.S. Toor at +91 9810711640

 

VELLORE FOR MANY IS THE ONLY HOPE

The Christian Medical College (CMC) in Vellore is known for well-qualified doctors and high-quality care. It is a public-spirited medical institution at an arm’s length from commercial interests and profit-making.

People turn up here in huge numbers for treatment of diseases that other hospitals can’t handle. But there are costs involved and you can help fund a patient by directly reaching out to CMC on its website.

It is called the person-to-person programme. For every rupee you give, CMC multiplies it five times. So, if you give just Rs 10,000, the patient ends up getting Rs 50,000. Many lives have been saved and in all 2,500 patients have benefitted.

Log into www.givecmc.org

 

MAKING PRIMARY CARE AVAILABLE

For all the tertiary stuff happening in medicine, it is primary healthcare that makes a difference to people. It needs to be easily accessible. How can that be made possible in remote locations? Doctors will have to go to them despite the odds.

Mary and Rajkumar Ramasamy are two such doctors who have shown the way by setting up a facility at K.C. Patty, a village of 800, about 50 km from Kodaikanal. The catchment for the clinic has around 15,000 people of which some 6,000 are tribals.

Patients get the first line of treatment at the Ramasamy’s health centre. In case they have complications, they are stabilized and sent to a secondary hospital.

Get in touch at ramasamy.rajkumar@gmail.com

Or call Rajkumar at +91 6382432344

 

RURAL HOSPITAL IS A LIFELINE

Villages sometimes end up getting the quality of care that can’t be found in cities. Chinchpada and its surrounding areas are fortunate in this way.

The Chinchpada Christian Hospital run by Dr Deepak Singh and Dr Ashita Singh, is an example of how well-qualified doctors going to rural areas can make a difference.

They run an OPD where the charge is just Rs 20 for a visit. A five-day stay in hospital for a procedure is around Rs 5,000. When we last reported on them, they had seen 25,000 patients in that year and 4,000 of them were in-patients. Write to them to know how you can help.

Ichinchpadachristianhospital@gmail.com Or call +91 9403692977